US Plant Patent PP4272
Yellow Sophisticate
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 22, 1997. 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
- PP4272
- Filed
- September 22, 1977
- Granted
- June 27, 1978
- Expires
- September 22, 1997
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A daisy capitulum type of chrysanthemum plant which is a sport of the cultivar Sophisticate, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,944, and which is distinguished from the parent cultivar by its medium yellow ray floret color.
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 morifolium; Ramat, known by the cultivar name Yellow Sophisticate and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of daisy capitulum type; flat capitulum form; medium yellow ray floret color; yellow green (immature) to yellow (mature) disc floret color; diameter across face of capitulum from 85 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform 9 week flowering response to photoperiodic short-day control; medium plant height; semi-spreading branching pattern; and minimal pollen development.
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