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US Plant Patent PP6614

Dark Tan

Chrysanthemum plant named Dark Tan

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 9, 2007. 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
PP6614
Filed
September 9, 1987
Granted
February 21, 1989
Expires
September 9, 2007

Abstract

A Chrysanthemum plant named Dark Tan particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; greyed-orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 6.0 cm at maturity when grown as a pinched spray pot mum; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched pot mum; and semi-spreading branching pattern.

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 Dark Tan, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; greyed-orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 6.0 cm at maturity when grown as a pinched spray pot mum; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched pot mum; and semi-spreading branching pattern.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6614 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.