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US Plant Patent PP8058

Volare

Chrysanthemum plant named Volare

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 5, 2011. 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
PP8058
Filed
February 5, 1991
Granted
December 8, 1992
Expires
February 5, 2011

Abstract

A Chrysanthemum plant named Volare particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; light purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 80 to 83 mm when fully opened when grown as a single stem spray cut mum; flowering response in Salinas under normal temperatures of 49 to 52 days after start of short days and of 63 to 70 days in Bogota, Colombia; plant height of 91 to 99 cm when grown in Salinas with 14 long days prior to start of short days compared to 104 to 112 cm when grown in Bogota with 17 to 21 long days prior to start of short days; peduncle length of the first lateral of 13 to 15 cm when grown in Salinas, and 13 to 18 cm when grown in Bogota; peduncle length of the fourth laterial of 18 cm when grown in Salinas, and 18 to 23 cm when grown in Bogota; and excellent tolerance to low night temperatures for bud initiation and flower development.

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 Volare, as described and illustrated.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8058 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.