US Plant Patent PP6499
Dart
Chrysanthemum plant named Dart
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 15, 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
- PP6499
- Filed
- May 15, 1987
- Granted
- December 27, 1988
- Expires
- May 15, 2007
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E; VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Dart particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; spooned daisy capitulum type; red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 12 cm at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown single stem; 15 to 25 cm peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; and 13 degrees Celsius minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds with a 12 to 13 hour continuous dark period.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct plant of Chrysanthemum named Dart, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; spooned daisy capitulum type; red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 12 cm at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown single stem; 15 to 25 cm peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; and 13 degrees Celsius minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.
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