US Plant Patent PP5984
Karma
Chrysanthemum plant named Karma
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 14, 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
- PP5984
- Filed
- August 14, 1985
- Granted
- May 12, 1987
- Expires
- August 14, 2005
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Karma having flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5.5 to 7.0 cm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched spray pot mum; semi-spreading branching pattern; tolerance of both low winter 12 DEG C. to 13 DEG C. and high summer 23 DEG C. to 38 DEG C. temperatures for bud initiation and flower development; and intense green, pollen-free disc florets.
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 cultivar of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., plant named Karma, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5.5 to 7.0 cm. at maturity; uniform eight week flowering response; medium plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern; tolerance of both low winter 12° C. to 13° C. and high summer 23° C. to 38° C. temperatures for bud initiation and flower development; and intense green, pollen-free disc florets.
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