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US Plant Patent PP5621

Vim

Chrysanthemum plant named Vim

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 16, 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
PP5621
Filed
January 16, 1984
Granted
December 31, 1985
Expires
January 16, 2004
Inventor
DUFFETT WILLIAM E

Abstract

A chrysanthemum plant named Vim particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; deep yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 7 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; medium plant height when grown single stem; 12 to 15 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; and 13° minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.

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 plant of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., named Vim, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; deep yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 5 to 7 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; medium plant height when grown single stem; 12 to 15 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5621 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.