US Plant Patent PP4640
Red Belair
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 21, 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
- PP4640
- Filed
- August 21, 1979
- Granted
- February 3, 1981
- Expires
- August 21, 1999
- Inventor
- COWARD BOB G
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant with flat decorative capitulum which is a sport of Bronze Belair disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,183. The new cultivar is distinguished from other cultivars of the Belair family by its dark red-bronze ray floret color.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., known by the cultivar name Red Belair and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of decorative capitulum type; flat capitulum form; dark red-bronze ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum from 75 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week response to photoperiodic short-day control; tall plant height; and semi-upright branching pattern.
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