US Plant Patent PP5495
Excel
Chrysanthemum plant named Excel
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 18, 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
- PP5495
- Filed
- February 18, 1983
- Granted
- June 18, 1985
- Expires
- February 18, 2003
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Excel having flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; lavender ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 55 to 70 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a pinched, spray pot mum, and 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 Excel, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; lavender ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 55 to 70 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week flowering response; tall plant height, and spreading branching pattern.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5495 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.