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US Plant Patent PP4472

Simona

Chrysanthemum plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 22, 1998. 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
PP4472
Filed
August 22, 1978
Granted
October 30, 1979
Expires
August 22, 1998
Inventor
HERRERA V CAMILO; SAAVEDRA REINALDO

Abstract

A chrysanthemum plant with flat decorative capitulum which is a sport of the cultivar Firebrand (unpatented), being distiguished from the parent cultivar by its dark 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 Simona and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of decorative capitulum type; flat capitulum form; dark yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum from 90 to 115 mm. at maturity; uniform ten week flowering response to photoperiodic short-day control; tall plant height; and semi-upright branching pattern.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4472 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.