US Plant Patent PP4517
Westpoint
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 21, 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
- PP4517
- Filed
- December 21, 1978
- Granted
- April 1, 1980
- Expires
- December 21, 1998
- Assignee
- MACK GRACE H
- Inventor
- MACK GRACE H; JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum cultivar particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, pompon capitulum type, medium yellow ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum up to 4 cm., short plant height, spreading branching pattern, average natural season flowering date of September 28, and average flowering response period of seven weeks in photoperiodic controlled short day programs.
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 name Westpoint and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, pompon capitulum type (commercial double), medium yellow ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum up to 40 mm., short plant height, spreading branching pattern, average natural season flowering date of September 28, and average flowering response period of seven weeks in photoperiodic controlled short day programs.
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