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US Plant Patent PP5660

Chic

Chrysanthemum plant named Chic

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 27, 2004. 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
PP5660
Filed
January 27, 1984
Granted
February 11, 1986
Expires
January 27, 2004
Inventor
DUFFETT WILLIAM E

Abstract

A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Chic and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 7 cm. at maturity; uniform eight week flowering response; medium plant height; upright branching pattern; tolerance of low winter 13° C. minimum temperatures; and tolerance of high summer temperatures of 24° C. nights, and 38° C. days under high light environments.

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 cultivar of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., plant named Chic, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 7 cm. at maturity; uniform eight week flowering response; medium plant height; upright branching pattern; tolerance of low winter 13° C. minimum temperatures; and tolerances of high summer temperatures of 24° C. nights, and 38° C. days under high light environments.

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