US Plant Patent PP8666
Lemon Tayrona
Chrysanthemum plant named Lemon Tayrona
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 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
- PP8666
- Filed
- July 27, 1992
- Granted
- March 29, 1994
- Expires
- July 27, 2012
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Lemon Tayrona particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; light lemon-yellow ray floret color, with a fresh green center of the flower; diameter across face of capitulum of 63 to 73 mm when fully opened, when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days when grown in Salinas, Calif., is 52 to 57 days after start of short days; flowering response in Bogota, Colombia, under temperatures of minimum 7 degrees Celsium night and maximum 29 degrees Celsius day is 66 to 68 days; plant height is 74 to 79 cm when grown in Salinas with 7 to 10 long days prior to start of short days; height is 102 to 117 cm when grown in Bogota with 14 long days prior to start of short days; peduncle length of the first lateral at flowering after removing the apical bud without growth regulator applications is 10 cm when grown in Salinas, and 15 cm when grown in Bogota; peduncle length of the fourth lateral at flowering is 13 cm when grown in Salinas, and 20 to 23 cm when grown in Bogota; 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 Lemon Tayrona, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8666 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.