US Plant Patent PP5285
Merriment
Chrysanthemum plant named Merriment
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 6, 2002. 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
- PP5285
- Filed
- August 6, 1982
- Granted
- September 18, 1984
- Expires
- August 6, 2002
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Merriment and particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form and single capitulum type, yellow ray floret color, 50-70 mm. diameter across the face of the capitulum, 90-135 mm. length peduncles, uniform nine week response, 1.5 to 2 meter length with no long days, and by its semiupright branching habit.
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 cultivar named Merriment, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form and single capitulum type, yellow ray floret color, 50-70 mm. diameter across the face of the capitulum, 90-135 mm. length peduncles, uniform nine week response, 1.5 to 2 meter length with no long days, and by its semiupright branching habit.
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