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US Plant Patent PP8203

Light Falma

Chrysanthemum plant named Light Falma

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 9, 2011. 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
PP8203
Filed
September 9, 1991
Granted
April 13, 1993
Expires
September 9, 2011

Abstract

A Chrysanthemum plant named Light Falma particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; light-orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 60 to 70 mm when fully opened, when grown as single stem cut mum; photoperiodic flowering response of 65 to 68 days to short days in Bogota, Colombia, under temperatures of minimum 6.3 degrees Celsius night and maximum 29 degrees Celsius day; plant height, with 14 long days prior to start of short days, ranges from 102 to 117 cm; peduncle length of the first lateral at flowering after removing the apical bud ranges from 8 to 10 cm; peduncle length of the fourth lateral ranges from 13 to 20 cm; 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 Light Falma, as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8203 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.