US Plant Patent PP4104
Scintalizer
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 13, 1994. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.
Twenty years from the filing date would end on July 9, 1996, but this patent ends 665 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.
The record
- Patent number
- PP4104
- Filed
- July 9, 1976
- Granted
- September 13, 1977
- Expires
- September 13, 1994
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
This invention relates to an induced mutation of Tantalizer chrysanthemum, differing therefrom by its golden yellow florets.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
We claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of chrysanthemum known by the cultivar name Scintalizer and characterized particularly as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of daisy inflorescence type with moderate longitudinal petal roll in opening stages, flat inflorescence from which reflexes slightly with age, diameter across face of inflorescence up to 4.0 inches at maturity, golden yellow ray floret color with slight bronzy overtones, medium green disc floret color at immature, unopened stage, minimal pollen development, uniform nine week flowering response, very tall plant height, semiupright branching habit, high percentage gradeout in top grades (SAF standards), and by its thin and weak peduncles during high light, high temperature periods (June through September).
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