US Plant Patent PP4561
Charisma
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 9, 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
- PP4561
- Filed
- February 9, 1979
- Granted
- July 1, 1980
- Expires
- February 9, 1999
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum cultivar particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; dark lavender pink ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a single stem cut spray; medium peduncle length, and minimal pollen production.
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 Charisma and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; dark lavender pink ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a single stem cut spray; medium penduncle length and minimal pollen production.
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