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US Plant Patent PP7381

Snowsota

Chrysanthemum plant named Snowsota

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 21, 2008. 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
PP7381
Filed
November 21, 1988
Granted
November 20, 1990
Expires
November 21, 2008

Abstract

A new variety of Dendranthema grandiflora (Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat.) for the outdoor garden and for spring flowering greenhouse pot plant culture, characterized by long-lasting blooms which are also early opening, 3.5 cm in diameter, full pompon, white with light yellow center, and resistant to pinking at lower temperatures, on plants of an informally mounded plant habit with small to medium sized leaves on stiff stems.

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 Dendranthema grandiflora cultivar substantially as shown and described herein, and particularly characterized by early opening florets, which are 3.5 cm in diameter, full, white with yellow center florets fading to white, the florets also being resistant to low temperature "pinking" with good lasting quality developing into informal mounds with clean foliage on stiff stems.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7381 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.