US Plant Patent PP6621
Target
Chrysanthemum plant named Target
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 16, 2007. 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
- PP6621
- Filed
- September 16, 1987
- Granted
- February 21, 1989
- Expires
- September 16, 2007
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Target particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 5.5 cm at maturity; medium plant height with spreading and prolific branching pattern; average natural season flower date of August 26 in Salinas, Calif. and September 22 in Hightstown, N.J; uniform seven week photoperiodic flowering response to short days in photoperiodic controlled flowering programs; and durable, uniform performance in outside fall flowerings and in spring 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 Chrysanthemum plant named Target, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of up to 5.5 cm at maturity; medium plant height with spreading and prolific branching pattern; average natural season flower date of August 26 in Salinas, Calif. and September 22 in Hightstown, N.J; uniform seven week photoperiodic flowering response to short days in photoperiodic controlled flowering programs; and durable, uniform performance in outside fall flowerings and in spring small pot flowering programs.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6621 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.