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US Plant Patent PP5475

Silverado

Chrysanthemum plant named Silverado

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 24, 2003. 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
PP5475
Filed
August 24, 1983
Granted
May 21, 1985
Expires
August 24, 2003
Inventor
DUFFETT WILLIAM E

Abstract

A chrysanthemum plant named Silverado particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 50 to 65 mm. at maturity; uniform ten week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown single stem; 10 to 15 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays, and slow development of male sterile green discs.

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 plant of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., named Silverado, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 50 to 65 mm. at maturity; uniform ten week flowering response; tall plant height when grown single stem; 10 to 15 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays, and slow development of male sterile green discs.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5475 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.