US Plant Patent PP4529
Yellow Superstar
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 4, 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
- PP4529
- Filed
- December 4, 1978
- Granted
- April 29, 1980
- Expires
- December 4, 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 Superstar, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,299, granted Sept. 12, 1978. Yellow Superstar 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 Superstar and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of daisy capitulum type; flat capitulum form; medium yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum from 100 to 120 mm. at maturity; uniform seven week photoperiodic flowering response; tall plant height; semi-upright branching pattern; and yellow green (immature) to yellow (mature) disc floret color.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4529 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.