US Plant Patent PP5736
Citron
Chrysanthemum plant named Citron
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 1, 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
- PP5736
- Filed
- August 1, 1984
- Granted
- May 6, 1986
- Expires
- August 1, 2004
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Citron characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, daisy capitulum type, light orange ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 7 cm. at maturity, uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height when grown single stem, 17 to 23 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays, rapid development of green discs devoid of pollen, 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds, and a long duration of both leaves and flowers.
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 Citron, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; light orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 7 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height when grown single stem; 17 to 23 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; rapid development of green discs devoid of pollen; 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds, and a long duration of both leaves and flowers.
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