US Plant Patent PP5738
Rave
Chrysanthemum plant named Rave
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 27, 2004. 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
- PP5738
- Filed
- August 27, 1984
- Granted
- May 6, 1986
- Expires
- August 27, 2004
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Rave characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, anemone capitulum type with 3 cm. cushion, purple-violet ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 6 cm. at maturity, uniform seven to eight week flowering response, medium plant height, semi-spreading branching pattern, and tolerance of both low winter 13° C. minimum and high summer 24° C. night to 38° C. day 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.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., plant named Rave, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; anemone capitulum type with 3 cm. cushion purple-violet ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 6 cm. at maturity; uniform seven to eight week flowering response; medium plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern; and tolerance of both low winter 13° C. minimum and high summer 24° C. night to 38° C. day temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.
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