US Plant Patent PP6050
Kardo
Chrysanthemum plant named Kardo
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 10, 2005. 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
- PP6050
- Filed
- October 10, 1985
- Granted
- December 1, 1987
- Expires
- October 10, 2005
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Kardo particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; yellow-orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 11 cm at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown single stem; 18 to 33 cm peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; slow development of green discs and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds with a 12 to 13 hour continuous dark period.
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 Kardo, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; yellow-orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 11 cm at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown single stem; 18 to 33 cm peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; slow development of green discs; and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds with a 12 to 13 hour continuous dark period.
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