US Plant Patent PP6498
Akira
Chrysanthemum plant named Akira
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 15, 2007. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
No term adjustment or disclaimer is recorded against this patent, so this is the full statutory term — twenty years from the filing date.
The record
- Patent number
- PP6498
- Filed
- May 15, 1987
- Granted
- December 27, 1988
- Expires
- May 15, 2007
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Akira particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; spoon daisy capitulum type; red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 15 cm at maturity when grown as a pinched disbudded pot mum; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched pot mum; recommended both as disbudded and spray pot mum; spreading and prolific branching pattern.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct Chrysanthemum plant named Akira, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; spoon daisy capitulum type; red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 15 cm at maturity when grown as a pinched disbudded pot mum; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched pot mum; recommended both as disbudded and spray pot mum; and spreading and prolific branching pattern.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6498 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.