US Plant Patent PP5695
Stargazer
Chrysanthemum plant named Stargazer
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 24, 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
- PP5695
- Filed
- May 24, 1984
- Granted
- March 18, 1986
- Expires
- May 24, 2004
- Inventor
- TREMAINE HARRY G; HUGHES MARY L
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant named Stargazer having flat capitulum form and daisy capitulum type, red-purple ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 6.5 cm. at maturity, uniform seven week photoperiodic flowering response to short days, short plant height when grown as a pinched, spray pot mum, spreading branching pattern, average natural season flowering date of September 20, and uniform response with durable color and form in Spring for small pot flowering programs.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., plant named Stargazer, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 6.5 cm. at maturity, uniform seven week flowering response; short plant height; spreading branching pattern; average natural season flowering date of September 20, and uniform response with durable color and form in Spring for small pot flowering programs.
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