US Plant Patent PP6404
Legend
Chrysanthemum plant named Legend
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 8, 2006. 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
- PP6404
- Filed
- December 8, 1986
- Granted
- November 15, 1988
- Expires
- December 8, 2006
- Assignee
- MACK GRACE H
- Inventor
- MACK GRACE H; VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Legend particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 4 cm at maturity; medium plant height with spreading and prolific branching pattern; average natural season flower date of August 22 in Salinas, Calif. and September 17 in Hightstown, N.J.; uniform seven week photoperiodic flowering response to short days in photoperiodic controlled flowering programs; and by its durable, uniform performance in outside fall flowerings and in spring small pot flowering programs.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct Chrysanthemum plant named Legend, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 4 cm at maturity; medium plant height with spreading and prolific branching pattern; average natural season flower date of August 22 in Salinas, Calif. and September 17 in Hightstown, N.J.; uniform seven week photoperiodic flowering response to short days in photoperiodic controlled flowering programs; and durable, uniform performance in outside fall flowerings and in spring small pot flowering programs.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6404 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.