US Plant Patent PP5408
Chardonnay
Chrysanthemum plant named Chardonnay
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 16, 2003. 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
- PP5408
- Filed
- June 16, 1983
- Granted
- February 26, 1985
- Expires
- June 16, 2003
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum cultivar named Chardonnay having the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; 85 to 110 mm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; slow development of light green discs; and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.
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 plant of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., named Chardonnay, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height when grown single stem; 85 to 110 mm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; slow development of light green discs; and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.
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