US Plant Patent PP9302
Kent
Chrysanthemum plant named `Kent`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 21, 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
- PP9302
- Filed
- July 21, 1994
- Granted
- September 26, 1995
- Expires
- July 21, 2014
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Kent particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; white ray floret color with cream center; diameter across face of capitulum of 79 to 83 mm when fully opened, when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; flowering response in Salinas under normal temperature is 55 to 58 days after start of short days; flowering response in Honselersdijk, The Netherlands, is 53 to 56 days from May through September; plant height is 86 cm when grown in Salinas with 13 to 18 long days prior to start of short days; height is 91 to 102 cm when grown in The Netherlands with 17 to 20 days prior to start of short days and growth regulator applications; peduncle length of the first and fourth lateral at flowering after removing the apical bud without growth regulator applications is 8 to 10 cm and 13 to 18 cm, respectively, when grown in Salinas, and 5 cm and 5 to 8 cm, respectively, when grown in The Netherlands; production of 10 to 12 laterals, each producing one terminal flower; and good stem strength in year round flowerings.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distince Chrysanthemum plant named Kent as described and illustrated.
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