US Plant Patent PP5915
Gallant
Chrysanthemum plant named Gallant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 27, 2004. 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
- PP5915
- Filed
- August 27, 1984
- Granted
- March 24, 1987
- Expires
- August 27, 2004
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Gallant characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, decorative capitulum type, purple ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 10 to 12 cm. at maturity, uniform nine week flowering response, tall plant height when grown single stem, 13 to 20 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays, 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds, and very high bud count, with six to nine uniformly developed flowers per stem.
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 plant of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., named Gallant, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 10 to 12 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height when grown single stem; 13 to 20 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds; and very high bud count, with six to nine uniformly developed flowers per stem.
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