US Plant Patent PP6388
Mirage
Chrysanthemum plant named Mirage
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 15, 2007. 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
- PP6388
- Filed
- January 15, 1987
- Granted
- November 8, 1988
- Expires
- January 15, 2007
- Assignee
- MACK GRACE H
- Inventor
- MACK GRACE H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Mirage particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; pompon capitulum type; orange-bronze ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum up to 4 cm at maturity; medium plant height with spreading and prolific branching pattern; average natural season flower date of August 21 in Salinas, Calif. and September 15 in Hightstown, N.J.; uniform seven week photoperiodic flowering response to short days in photoperiodic controlled flowering programs; and by its durable, uniform performance in outside fall flowerings and in spring small pot flowering programs.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct chrysanthemum plant named Mirage, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; pompon capitulum type; orange-bronze ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 4 cm at maturity; medium plant height with spreading and prolific branching pattern; average natural season flower date of August 21 in Salinas, Calif. and September 15 in Hightstown, N.J.; uniform seven week photoperiodic flowering response to short days in photoperiodic controlled flowering programs; and durable, uniform performance in outside all flowerings and in spring small pot flowering programs.
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