US Plant Patent PP4556
Butterball
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 23, 1999. 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
- PP4556
- Filed
- February 23, 1979
- Granted
- June 24, 1980
- Expires
- February 23, 1999
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Butterball and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; pompon capitulum type; dark yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 40 to 45 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a pinched spray pot, and semi-upright branching pattern.
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 as shown and described, known by the cultivar name Butterball and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; pompon capitulum type; dark yellow ray floret color, with minimal color oxidation; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 40 to 45 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week flowering response; tall plant height, and semi-upright branching pattern.
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