US Plant Patent PP9423
Soft Volare
Chrysanthemum plant named `Soft Volare`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 21, 2014. 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
- PP9423
- Filed
- July 21, 1994
- Granted
- January 9, 1996
- Expires
- July 21, 2014
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Soft Volare particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; very light pink ray floret color, with the base of the upper side of the ray floret slightly overlaid with light red-purple; diameter across face of capitulum of 76 to 83 mm when fully opened, when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days when grown in Salinas, Calif., of 50 to 60 days after start of short days; flowering response in Bogota, Colombia of 69 to 71 days; plant height of 71 to 86 cm when grown in Salinas with 11 long days prior to start of short days; height of 99 to 102 cm when grown in Bogota with 14 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 of 8 to 10 cm when grown in Salinas, and 13 to 15 cm when grown in Bogota; peduncle length of the fourth lateral at flowering of 10 to 15 cm when grown in Salinas, and 18 to 20 cm when grown in Bogota; and excellent tolerance to low night 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 Chrysanthemum plant named Soft Volare, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP9423 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.