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US Plant Patent PP8466

Lambada

Chrysanthemum plant named Lambada

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 27, 2012. 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
PP8466
Filed
August 27, 1992
Granted
November 16, 1993
Expires
August 27, 2012
Inventor
VANDENBERG CORNELIS P

Abstract

A Chrysanthemum plant named Lambada particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; anemone capitulum type; soft pink ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 67 to 83 mm when fully opened, when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days of 47 to 59 days when grown in Salinas, Calif., and of 59 to 63 days when grown in Bogota, Colombia; plant height of 71 to 87 cm with 11 to 18 long days after planting rooted cuttings prior to start of short days when grown as a single stem cut mum, with no growth regulator applications when grown in Salinas; when grown in Bogota with 14 to 21 long days prior to start of short days plant height is 89 to 107 cm; peduncle length at flowering time of the first lateral after removing the apical bud when grown in Salinas is 8 to 15 cm; peduncle length of the fourth lateral is 10 to 20 cm; when grown in Bogota, peduncle length of the first and fourth lateral is 13 to 18 cm and 18 to 20 cm, respectively; and excellent tolerance to low night temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.

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 Lambada, as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8466 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.