US Plant Patent PP9816
Fidelio
Chrysanthemum plant named `Fidelio`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 15, 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
- PP9816
- Filed
- March 15, 1996
- Granted
- March 4, 1997
- Expires
- March 15, 2016
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Fidelio particularly characterized by its flat incurved capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 70 to 86 mm when fully opened; flowering response in Salinas under normal temperatures is 49 to 52 days after start of short days. Flowering response in Bogota, Columbia is 62 to 69 days after start of short days; plant height is 91 to 104 cm when grown in Salinas with 11 to 13 long days prior to start of short days; height is 104 to 122 cm when grown in Bogota, Colombia with 14 to 15 long days prior to start of short days; peduncle length of the first and the fourth laterals at flowering after removing the apical bud is 8 to 10 cm and 13 to 18 cm when grown in Salinas; peduncle length when grown in Bogota, Colombia is 10 to 15 cm and 15 to 23 cm, respectively; production of 9 to 10 laterals, each producing one terminal flower when grown in Salinas; production is 7 to 9 laterals when grown in Bogota, Colombia; and uniform flowering in year round flowerings.
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 Fidelio, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9816 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.