US Plant Patent PP5935
Chrysanthemum plant named Lobo
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 20, 2005. 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
- PP5935
- Filed
- June 20, 1985
- Granted
- April 7, 1987
- Expires
- June 20, 2005
- Assignee
- BALL PAN AM PLANT COMPANY
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH MAY V
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Lobo having flat capitulum form and decorative capitulum type; bright white ray florets on outside rows, with mature center florets being creamy yellow; uniform eight week flowering response using photoperiodic control and natural flowering date of October 8 in the midwest and October 31 in Florida when grown as a garden variety; diameter across inflorescence is 1" to 2", and height is 6" to 8" above edge of a 4" pot when grown photoperiodically and 1' to 2' high when grown as a garden variety.
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 cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Lobo, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form and decorative capitulum type; bright white ray florets on outside rows, with mature center florets being creamy yellow; uniform eight week flowering response using photoperiodic control, and natural flowering date of October 8 in the midwest and October 31 in Florida when grown as a garden variety; diameter across inflorescence is 1" to 2", and height is 6" to 8" above edge of a 4" pot when grown photoperiodically and 1' to 2' high when grown as a garden variety.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5935 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.