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US Plant Patent PP6051

Calvex

Chrysanthemum plant named Calvex

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired October 10, 2005. 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
PP6051
Filed
October 10, 1985
Granted
December 1, 1987
Expires
October 10, 2005
Inventor
DUFFETT WILLIAM E

Abstract

A Chrysanthemum plant named Calvex particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; greyed-orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 9 cm at maturity; uniform nine to ten week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown single stem; 20 to 25 cm peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds with a 12 to 13 hour continuous dark period.

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 Calvex, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; greyed-orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 9 cm at maturity; uniform nine to ten week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown single stem; 20 to 25 cm peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6051 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.