US Plant Patent PP9809
Felicia
Chrysanthemum plant named `Felicia`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 1, 2016. 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
- PP9809
- Filed
- March 1, 1996
- Granted
- February 25, 1997
- Expires
- March 1, 2016
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Felicia particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 50 to 54 mm when fully opened; branching pattern is spreading and prolific, with 6 to 8 laterals developing after pinch when grown outside under natural daylength in fall flowerings; natural season flower date of August 8 to 16 when planting rooted cuttings on June 17 to 18 in Salinas, Calif., and of September 14 to October 1 when planting rooted cuttings June 15 to 18 in Highstown, 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.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct Chrysanthemum plant named Felicia, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9809 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.