US Plant Patent PP6052
Zilcon
Chrysanthemum plant named Zilcon
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 10, 2005. 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
- PP6052
- Filed
- October 10, 1985
- Granted
- December 1, 1987
- Expires
- October 10, 2005
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A Chrysanthemum plant named Zilcon, particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; very light red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 6 to 8 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown single stem; 25 to 30 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; and 13° C. 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 Dentrenthema morifolium, Ramat., named Zilcon, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; very light red-purple ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 6 to 8 cm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height when grown single stem; 25 to 30 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays; and 13° C. minimum temperature tolerance for initiation and development of flowering buds.
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