US Plant Patent PP9725
Empire Rhapsody
Chrysanthemum plant named `Empire Rhapsody`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 25, 2015. 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
- PP9725
- Filed
- August 25, 1995
- Granted
- December 3, 1996
- Expires
- August 25, 2015
- Inventor
- FUESS JANET S
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Empire Rhapsody particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; dark red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 50 to 55 mm when fully opened; spreading branching pattern; natural season flower date of August 27 to 29 when planting rooted cuttings on June 17 to 18 in Salinas, Calif., and September 20 to 26 when planting rooted cuttings June 15 to 21 in Hightstown, N.J.; plant height of 23 to 28 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators; and durable, uniform performance.
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 Empire Rhapsody, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9725 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.