US Plant Patent PP4692
Nova
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 4, 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
- PP4692
- Filed
- December 4, 1979
- Granted
- April 14, 1981
- Expires
- December 4, 1999
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- MEEK JACK M; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum cultivar particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; light lavender pink ray floret color with minimum color oxidation; yellow-green (immature) to yellow (mature) disc floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 75 to 95 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 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 Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., plant known by the cultivar name Nova, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; light lavender pink ray floret color with minimum color oxidation; yellow green (immature) to yellow (mature) disc floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 75 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height, medium peduncle length; and semi-upright branching pattern.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4692 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.