US Plant Patent PP8225
Bronze Melosa
Chrysanthemum plant named Bronze Melosa
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 14, 2011. 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
- PP8225
- Filed
- June 14, 1991
- Granted
- May 11, 1993
- Expires
- June 14, 2011
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Bronze Melosa particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; light-orange ray floret color with slightly darker center; diameter across face of capitulum of 89 to 102 mm when fully opened, when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days in Salinas under normal temperatures is 47 to 57 days after start of short days; flowering response in Bogota, Colombia, under temperatures of minimum 6.3 degrees Celsius night and maximum 29 degrees Celsius day is 65 to 72 days; plant height, with 6 to 8 long days prior to start of short days ranges from 79 to 91 cm when grown in Salinas as a single stem cut mum with no growth regulator applications; when grown in Bogota, with 14 to 15 long days prior to start of short days, plant height ranges from 99 to 124 cm; peduncle length of the first lateral at flowering after removing the apical bud ranges from 10 to 15 cm when grown in Salinas, and from 13 to 18 cm when grown in Bogota; peduncle length of the fourth lateral ranges from 18 to 20 cm in Salinas, and from 20 to 23 cm in Bogota; and excellent tolerance to low night temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.
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 Bronze Melosa, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8225 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.