US Plant Patent PP5779
Rejoice
Chrysanthemum plant named Rejoice
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 28, 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
- PP5779
- Filed
- November 28, 1984
- Granted
- August 12, 1986
- Expires
- November 28, 2004
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Rejoice having flat capitulum form; anemone capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 6 to 8 cm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched, spray pot mum; semi-spreading branching pattern, and tolerance of high summer 21° C. night to 37° 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 Rejoice, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; anemone capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 6 to 8 cm. at maturity; uniform eight week flowering response; medium plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern; and tolerance of high summer 21° C. night to 37° C. day temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.
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