US Plant Patent PP8802
Soft Cherie
Chrysanthemum plant named Soft Cherie
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 17, 2013. 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
- PP8802
- Filed
- May 17, 1993
- Granted
- June 28, 1994
- Expires
- May 17, 2013
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- POLYS SUSAN M
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Soft Cherie particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; light purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 38 to 44 mm when fully opened, when grown as a pinched spray pot mum; very floriferous, with excellent display of many small flowers; photoperiodic flowering response of 50 to 51 days after start of short days; plant height, with 13 to 14 long days after sticking unrooted cuttings, and with 0 to 1 applications of 2500 ppm B-9 SP, ranges from 20 to 25 cm when grown as a pinched pot mum with 4 cuttings in a 15 cm pot; branching pattern is spreading and prolific, each plant having 7 to 8 laterals after pinch; and recommended as a spray pot mum.
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 Chrysanthemum plant named Soft Cherie, as described and illustrated.
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