US Plant Patent PP8481
Soft Pasion
Chrysanthemum plant named Soft Pasion
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 27, 2012. 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
- PP8481
- Filed
- July 27, 1992
- Granted
- November 30, 1993
- Expires
- July 27, 2012
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Soft Pasion particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; soft pink ray floret color, with a darker center of the flower; diameter across face of capitulum of 73 to 76 mm when fully opened, when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days when grown in Salinas, Calif., is 53 to 57 days after start of short days; flowering response in Bogota, Colombia is 65 to 66 days; plant height is 81 to 114 cm when grown in Salinas with 17 to 18 long days prior to start of short days; height is 114 to 137 cm when grown in Bogota with 21 long days prior to start of short days; peduncle length of the first lateral at flowering after removing the apical bud without growth regulator applications is 3 to 8 cm when grown in Salinas, and 3 to 5 cm when grown in Bogota; peduncle length of the fourth lateral at flowering is 8 to 13 cm when grown in Salinas, and 8 to 13 cm when grown in Bogota; and excellent tolerance to minimum low night temperatures of 7° C. 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 Chrysanthemum plant named Soft Pasion, as described and illustrated.
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