US Plant Patent PP8980
Sunny Denise
Chrysanthemum plant named Sunny Denise
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 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
- PP8980
- Filed
- December 17, 1993
- Granted
- November 15, 1994
- Expires
- December 17, 2013
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- GLICENSTEIN LEON
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Sunny Denise particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; spooned decorative capitulum type; bright yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 76 to 89 mm when fully opened; branching pattern is spreading and prolific, with 6 to 9 breaks after pinch when grown outside under natural daylength in fall flowerings, and 6 to 7 breaks after pinch when grown in 10 cm pots for spring flowerings; natural season flower date of August 25 to September 3 when planting rooted cuttings on June 21 to June 23 in Salinas, Calif., and September 30 when planting rooted cuttings June 11 in Hightstown, N.J.; flowering response of 45 to 49 days after rooting in no light/no shade programs in spring; plant height of 33 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators in New Jersey, 25 to 30 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength in California, and 21 cm when grown in 10 cm pots in spring with no applications of 2500 ppm B-9 SP; and durable, uniform performance.
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 Sunny Denise, as described and illustrated.
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