US Plant Patent PP9701
Pink Cinderella
Chrysanthemum plant named `Pink Cinderella`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 7, 2015. 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
- PP9701
- Filed
- September 7, 1995
- Granted
- November 19, 1996
- Expires
- September 7, 2015
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Pink Cinderella particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 64 to 73 mm when fully opened, when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; flowering response in Salinas under normal temperatures is 47 to 54 days after start of short days; flowering response in Bogota, Colombia is 59 to 63 days; plant height is 86 to 94 cm when grown in Salinas with 14 to 18 long days prior to start of short days; height is 104 to 112 cm when grown in Bogota with 21 long days prior to start of short days; peduncle length of the first lateral at flowering after removing the apical bud without growth regulator applications is 8 to 13 cm when grown in Salinas, and 13 to 15 cm when grown in Bogota; peducle length of the fourth lateral at flowering is 10 to 15 cm when grown in Salinas, and 18 to 20 cm when grown in Bogota; high production of flowers per stem, with 10 to 14 laterals developing; top laterals produce one terminal flower, lower laterals produce one terminal flower and 2 to 4 secondary flowers; and excellent tolerance to low night temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct Chrysanthemum plant named Pink Cinderella, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9701 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.