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US Plant Patent PP4531

Lancer

Chrysanthemum plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired November 27, 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
PP4531
Filed
November 27, 1978
Granted
May 6, 1980
Expires
November 27, 1998
Inventor
JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E

Abstract

A chrysantheumum cultivar particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, spooned daisy capitulum type, dark lavender pink ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum up to 10 cm., tall plant height, semi-spreading branching pattern, average natural season flowering date of September 22, 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 Lancer and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristis of flat capitulum form, spooned daisy capitulum type, dark lavender pink ray floret color, diameter across face of capitulum up to 100 mm., tall plant height, semi-spreading branching pattern, average natural season flowering date of September 22 and average flowering response period of seven weeks in photoperiodic controlled short day programs.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4531 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.