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US Plant Patent PP8139

Early Vero

Chrysanthemum plant named Early Vero

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 12, 2011. 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
PP8139
Filed
February 12, 1991
Granted
February 9, 1993
Expires
February 12, 2011

Abstract

A Chrysanthemum plant named Early Vero particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 8 cm at maturity; flowering response of 8 to 81/2 weeks under natural season flowering; medium plant height when grown as a single stem, and 15 to 20 cm peduncles on open, terminal sprays. Early Vero differs from the parent cultivar Vero by its substantially earlier flowering response and somewhat shorter plant height.

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 Early Vero, as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8139 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.