US Plant Patent PP5986
Envy
Chrysanthemum plant named Envy
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 14, 2005. 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
- PP5986
- Filed
- August 14, 1985
- Granted
- May 12, 1987
- Expires
- August 14, 2005
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Envy having flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; ivory and white ray floret colors; diameter across face of disbudded capitulum ranging from 10 to 12 cm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; short plant height when grown as a pinched disbudded pot mum; spreading branching pattern; tolerance of high summer 23° C. to 38° C. temperatures for bud initiation and flower development; and immature ray florets which are suffused with ivory.
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., plant named Envy, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; ivory and white ray floret colors; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 10 to 12 cm. at maturity; uniform eight week flowering response; short plant height; spreading branching pattern; tolerance of high summer 23° C. to 38° C. temperatures for bud initiation and flower development; and by its immature ray florets which are suffused with ivory.
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