US Plant Patent PP8982
Raquel
Chrysanthemum plant named Raquel
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 20, 2013. 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
- PP8982
- Filed
- December 20, 1993
- Granted
- November 15, 1994
- Expires
- December 20, 2013
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Raquel particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; dark red ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 43 to 50 mm when fully opened; branching pattern is spreading, with 7 to 9 breaks after pinch when grown outside under natural daylength in fall flowerings and 6 to 8 breaks when grown in 10 cm pots for spring flowerings; natural season flower date of August 21 to 24 when planting rooted cuttings on June 18 to 19 in Salinas, Calif., and September 30 to October 12 when planting rooted cuttings June 15 to June 18 in Hightstown, N.J.; flowering response of 45 to 51 days after rooting in no light/no shade programs in spring in Salinas; plant height of 30 to 33 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators in New Jersey, and 13 to 15 cm when grown in 10 cm pots in spring with no growth regulator applications; and recommended as mid-season variety.
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 plant named Raquel, as described and illustrated.
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