US Plant Patent PP4492
Cirbronze
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 18, 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
- PP4492
- Filed
- July 18, 1978
- Granted
- January 8, 1980
- Expires
- July 18, 1998
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- MEEK JACK M; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A daisy capitulum type of chrysanthemum plant which is a sport of the cultivar Circus, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,188. Cirbronze is distinguished from the parent cultivar by its medium bronze 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 Cirbronze and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of daisy capitulum type; flat capitulum form; medium bronze ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum from 55 to 75 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response to photoperiodic control; medium plant height; and semi-spreading branching pattern.
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