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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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4640 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.