US Plant Patent PP9026
Kimberly
Chrysanthemum plant named Kimberly
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 20, 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
- PP9026
- Filed
- December 20, 1993
- Granted
- January 3, 1995
- Expires
- December 20, 2013
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Kimberly particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; light purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 47 to 52 mm when fully opened; branching pattern is spreading and prolific, with 9 breaks after pinch when grown outside under natural daylength in fall flowerings and 5 to 8 breaks when grown in 10 cm pots for spring flowerings; natural season flower date of September 2 to 7 when planting rooted cuttings on June 21 to 25 in Salinas, Calif., and October 5 to 17 when planting rooted cuttings June 11 to June 18 in Hightstown, N.J.; flowering response of 46 to 53 days after rooting in no light/no shade programs in spring in Salinas; plant height of 30 to 36 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators in New Jersey, and 18 to 23 cm when grown in 10 cm pots in spring with no growth regulator applications; and durable, uniform performance.
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 Kimberly, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9026 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.