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US Plant Patent PP5713

Gleam

Chrysanthemum plant named Gleam

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 1, 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
PP5713
Filed
August 1, 1984
Granted
April 8, 1986
Expires
August 1, 2004
Inventor
DUFFETT WILLIAM E

Abstract

A chrysanthemum plant named Gleam characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of pompon capitulum form; formal decorative capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 7 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height when grown single stem; 20 to 35 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays, and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.

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 Gleam, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of pompon capitulum form; formal decorative capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 7 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height when grown single stem; 20 to 35 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5713 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.