US Plant Patent PP4696
Dragon
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 3, 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
- PP4696
- Filed
- December 3, 1979
- Granted
- April 21, 1981
- Expires
- December 3, 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; dark red ray floret color with minimum color oxidation, yellow green (immature) to yellow (mature) disc floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 90 to 100 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a single stem cut spray; 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 Dragon, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; dark red ray floret color with minimum color oxidation; yellow green (immature) to yellow (mature) disc floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 90 to 100 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a single stem cut spray; and semi-upright branching pattern.
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