US Plant Patent PP9303
Imperial
Chrysanthemum plant named `Imperial`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 26, 2014. 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
- PP9303
- Filed
- July 26, 1994
- Granted
- September 26, 1995
- Expires
- July 26, 2014
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Imperial particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; spooned decorative capitulum type; cream-white ray florets with cream-yellow center of the flower; diameter across face of capitulum of 111 to 140 mm when fully opened, when grown as a pinched disbudded pot mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days of 51 to 58 days; plant height, with 20 to 26 long days after sticking unrooted cuttings, and with 1 to 2 applications of 2500 ppm B-9 SP, ranges from 20 to 28 cm when grown as a pinched pot mum with four cuttings in a 15 cm pot; branching pattern is spreading and prolific, each plant having 4 to 5 laterals after pinch; and recommended as disbudded pot mum.
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 Imperial, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9303 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.