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US Plant Patent PP5620

Spears

Chrysanthemum plant named Spears

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
PP5620
Filed
January 27, 1984
Granted
December 31, 1985
Expires
January 27, 2004
Inventor
DUFFETT WILLIAM E

Abstract

A chrysanthemum plant named Spears particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of spoon capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 7 to 8 cm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowring response to short days; medium plant height when grown as a pinched spray pot mum; spreading branching pattern; tolerance of both low 13° C. and high 24° C. night, 38° C. day temperatures for initiation of buds and development of flowers.

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 Spears, as described and illustrated, particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of spoon capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 6 to 8 cm. at maturity; uniform eight week flowering response; medium plant height; spreading branching pattern; tolerance of both low 13° C. and high 24° C. night, 38° C. day temperatures for initiation of buds and development of flowers.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5620 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.