US Plant Patent PP8465
Gitano
Chrysanthemum plant named Gitano
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 27, 2012. 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
- PP8465
- Filed
- August 27, 1992
- Granted
- November 16, 1993
- Expires
- August 27, 2012
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Gitano particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; bi-colored red-yellow ray floret color, with the base of the ray floret being yellow, and the margins and tip being red; diameter across face of capitulum of 76 to 83 mm when fully opened, when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days of 45 to 52 days when grown in Salinas, Calif., and of 63 to 64 days when grown in Bogota, Colombia; plant height of 81 to 109 cm with 11 to 14 long days after planting rooted cuttings prior to start of short days when grown as a single stem cut mum, with no growth regulator applications when grown in Salinas; when grown in Bogota with 14 long days prior to start of short days plant height is 107 to 130 cm; peduncle length at flowering time of the first lateral after removing the apical bud when grown in Salinas is 5 to 15 cm; peduncle length of the fourth lateral is 10 to 20 cm; when grown in Bogota, peduncle length of the first and fourth lateral is 13 to 18 cm and 20 to 23 cm, respectively; relatively low production of laterals per stem, with 5 to 9 laterals developing when grown in Salinas, and 5 to 6 laterals when grown in Bogota; and excellent tolerance to low night temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.
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 Chrysanthemum plant named Gitano, as described and illustrated.
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