US Plant Patent PP8987
Jennifer
Chrysanthemum plant named Jennifer
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 22, 2013. 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
- PP8987
- Filed
- November 22, 1993
- Granted
- November 22, 1994
- Expires
- November 22, 2013
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Jennifer particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; bronze ray floret color with darker center of the flower; diameter across face of capitulum of 64 to 73 mm when fully opened; spreading branching pattern, with 8 to 9 breaks after pinch when grown outside under natural daylength in fall flowerings and 6 to 7 breaks when grown in 10 cm pots for spring flowerings; natural season flower date of August 23 to 31 when planting rooted cuttings on June 18 to 23 in Salinas, Calif., and September 17 to October 6 when planting rooted cuttings June 15 to June 18 in Hightstown, N.J.; flowering response of 47 to 51 days after rooting in no light/no shade programs in spring in Salinas; plant height of 28 to 38 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators in New Jersey, and 15 to 18 cm when grown in 10 cm pots in spring with no growth regulator applications; and recommended as mid-season variety.
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 Jennifer, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8987 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.