US Plant Patent PP9583
Chicago
Chrysanthemum plant named `Chicago`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 7, 2015. 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
- PP9583
- Filed
- September 7, 1995
- Granted
- June 18, 1996
- Expires
- September 7, 2015
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Chicago particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; red-purple ray floret color with a green disc and a distinct dark dot in the center of the disc; diameter across face of capitulum of 73 to 76 mm when fully opened; flowering response in Salinas under normal temperatures is 52 to 56 days after start of short days; plant height is 96 to 102 cm when grown in Salinas with 11 long days prior to start or short days; peduncle length of the first and the fourth laterals at flowering after removing the apical bud is 8 cm and 10 cm; production of 9 to 15 laterals, each producing one terminal flower; and uniform flowering in year round flowerings.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct Chrysanthemum plant named Chicago, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9583 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.