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US Plant Patent PP8781

Bronze Pasion

Chrysanthemum plant named Bronze Pasion

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 27, 2012. 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
PP8781
Filed
July 27, 1992
Granted
June 14, 1994
Expires
July 27, 2012
Inventor
VANDENBERG CORNELIS P

Abstract

A Chrysanthemum plant named Bronze Pasion particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; yellow-orange ray floret color, with a darker bronze center of the flower; diameter across face of capitulum of 73 to 76 mm when fully opened, when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days when grown in Salinas, Calif., is 51 to 57 days after start of short days; flowering response in Bogota, Colombia is 62 to 64 days; plant height is 74 to 114 cm when grown in Salinas with 17 to 18 long days prior to start of short days; height is 114 to 132 cm when grown in Bogota with 21 long days prior to start of short days; peduncle length of the first lateral at flowering after removing the apical bud without growth regulator applications is 3 to 8 cm when grown in Salinas, and 3 to 5 cm when grown in Bogota; peduncle length of the fourth lateral at flowering is 8 to 13 cm when grown in Salinas, and 8 to 13 cm when grown in Bogota; and excellent tolerance to minimum low night temperatures of 7° C. 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 Pasion, as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8781 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.