Skip to content
The Patent Garden

US Plant Patent PP8573

Wain's Pink Lady

Chrysanthemum plant named `Wain's Pink Lady`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 12, 2012. 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
PP8573
Filed
June 12, 1992
Granted
February 1, 1994
Expires
June 12, 2012
Assignee
CLEANGRO LTD
Inventor
WAIN PETER

Abstract

Chrysanthemum Wain's Pink Lady is a new cultivar, distinguished by its overall pink color with a rose colored eye, an exceptionally upright to spreading branching habit and good flowering characteristics. Wain's Pink Lady originated from a cross made by Peter Wain in a controlled breeding program in Havant, Hampshire, England. The female parent of Wain's Pink Lady was the commercial plant Pink Arola and the male parent was a numbered unnamed seedling designated "1 WX-87". Wain's Pink Lady was selected as one flowering plant from the progeny of the stated cross because of the unusual overall pink color of the flowers. The unique flower color is distinct from the lavender color of the female parent Pink Arola. Additionally, Wain's Pink Lady's contrasting rose colored eye makes its appearance even more distinguishable from either the male parent, 1 WX-87, or a commercially marketed Chrysanthemum named Charm which is similar in capitulum and habit to Wain's Pink Lady.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

What is claimed is: 1. A new and distinct Chrysanthemum cultivar, substantially as herein described and shown, characterized by an overall pink appearance accented by a rose colored eye contrasting with a pale red purple ray color.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8573 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.