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US Plant Patent PP9518

Apricot Blush

Chrysanthemum plant named `Apricot Blush`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 1, 2014. 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
PP9518
Filed
November 1, 1994
Granted
April 23, 1996
Expires
November 1, 2014
Inventor
POLYS SUSAN M

Abstract

A chrysanthemum plant named Apricot Blush particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; orange-red ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 127 to 140 mm when fully opened, when grown as a pinched disbudded pot mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days of 53 to 60 days; plant height, with 20 to 22 long days after sticking unrooted cuttings and with 1 to 2 applications of 250 ppm B-9 SP, ranges from 23 to 28 cm when grown as a pinched pot mum with 4 cuttings in a 15 cm pot; branching pattern is semi-spreading, each plant having 3 to 5 laterals after pinch; and recommended as disbudded pot mum.

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 Apricot Blush, as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9518 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.