US Plant Patent PP5618
Siren
Chrysanthemum plant named Siren
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 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
- PP5618
- Filed
- January 27, 1984
- Granted
- December 31, 1985
- Expires
- January 27, 2004
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Siren particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; deep orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 7 to 8 cm. at maturity; uniform seven to eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; short plant height when grown as a pinched spray pot mum; semi-spreading branching pattern; tolerance of both low winter 13° C. and high summer 24° C. to 38° C. 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 Siren, as described and illustrated, particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; deep orange ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 7 to 8 cm. at maturity; uniform seven to eight week flowering response; short plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern; tolerance of both low winter 13° C. and high summer 24° C. to 38° C. temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.
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