US Plant Patent PP8985
Valerie
Chrysanthemum plant named Valerie
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 22, 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
- PP8985
- Filed
- November 22, 1993
- Granted
- November 22, 1994
- Expires
- November 22, 2013
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- VANDENBERG CORNELIS P
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Valerie particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; dark red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 34 to 44 mm when fully opened; branching pattern is spreading, with 6 to 8 breaks after pinch when grown outside under natural daylength in fall flowerings and 5 to 6 breaks when grown in 10 cm pots for spring flowerings; natural season flower date of September 2 to 7 when planting rooted cuttings on June 18 to 10 in Salinas, Calif., and of October 7 to 14 when planting rooted cuttings June 15 to June 18 in Hightstown, N.J.; flowering response of 54 to 58 days after rooting in no light/no shade programs in spring in Salinas; plant height of 28 to 30 cm when grown in fall under natural daylength with no growth regulators in New Jersey, and of 15 to 18 cm when grown in 10 cm pots in spring with no growth regulator applications; and recommended as late-season variety for October sales.
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 Valerie, as described and illustrated.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8985 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.