US Plant Patent PP5280
Moonstone
Chrysanthemum plant named Moonstone
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 22, 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
- PP5280
- Filed
- December 22, 1982
- Granted
- September 11, 1984
- Expires
- December 22, 2002
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Moonstone particularly characterized by its semi-incurved globe shaped capitulum form and formal capitulum type, creamy yellow-white ray floret color, 10-14 cm. diameter across the face of the capitulum, uniform 9 week height with no long days, and its semi-upright 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 Moonstone, as shown and described, and particularly characterized by its semi-incurved globe shaped capitulum form and formal capitulum type, creamy yellow-white ray floret color, 10-14 cm. diameter across the face of the capitulum, uniform 9 week photoperiodic flowering response to short days, 1-1.5 m height with no long days, and its semi-upright branching habit.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5280 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.