US Plant Patent PP4686
Sofia
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 11, 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
- PP4686
- Filed
- May 11, 1979
- Granted
- April 7, 1981
- Expires
- May 11, 1999
- Assignee
- JARDINES DE LOSE ANDES LTDA
- Inventor
- HERRERA V CAMILO; SAAVEDRA REINALDO
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant referred to by the cultivar name Sofia and a sport of the cultivar Deep Telstar, disclosed in U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,373. Sofia is distinguished from the parent cultivar by its dark lavender ray floret color.
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., known by the cultivar name Sofia and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of decorative capitulum type; flat capitulum form; dark lavender ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum from 95 to 125 mm at maturity; uniform eleven week response to photoperiodic short-day control; tall plant height; and semi-upright branching pattern.
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