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US Plant Patent PP4299

Superstar

Chrysanthemum plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 14, 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
PP4299
Filed
September 14, 1977
Granted
September 12, 1978
Expires
September 14, 1997
Inventor
JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E

Abstract

{PG,1 A chrysanthemum cultivar particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 100 to 120 mm. at maturity; uniform 7 week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a single stem cut spray; and semi-upright branching pattern.

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., plant known by the cultivar name Superstar and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 100 to 120 mm. at maturity; uniform seven week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a single stem cut spray; and semi-upright branching pattern.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4299 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.