US Plant Patent PP5325
Meteor
Chrysanthemum plant named Meteor
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 4, 2003. 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
- PP5325
- Filed
- February 4, 1983
- Granted
- November 6, 1984
- Expires
- February 4, 2003
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Meteor having semi-incurved capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 100 to 130 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a pinched disbud pot mum; semi-spreading branching pattern; and dual value as both pinched and standard disbud pot mums.
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 morifolium, Ramat., plant known by the cultivar name Meteor, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of semi-incurved capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 100 to 130 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern; and dual value as both pinched and standard disbud pot mums.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5325 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.