US Plant Patent PP5402
Eclipse
Chrysanthemum plant named Eclipse
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 21, 2003. 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
- PP5402
- Filed
- June 21, 1983
- Granted
- February 5, 1985
- Expires
- June 21, 2003
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Eclipse having semi-incurved capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; deep lemon yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 100 to 120 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched, disbud pot mum; and a prolific, 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 cultivar of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., named Eclipse, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of semi-incurved capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; deep lemon yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 100 to b 120 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; medium plant height and spreading branching pattern.
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