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US Plant Patent PP4697

White Gem

Chrysanthemum plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 12, 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
PP4697
Filed
December 12, 1979
Granted
April 21, 1981
Expires
December 12, 1999
Inventor
SODERMAN PHILLIP A

Abstract

A chrysanthemum plant with flat daisy capitulum which is a sport of the cultivar Gem, being distinguished from the parent cultivar by its light lavender pink (commercially acceptable as white) 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 White Gem, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of daisy capitulum type; flat capitulum form; light lavender pink ray floret color (commercially acceptable white); diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 88 mm. at maturity; uniform seven week flowering response to photoperiodic short day control; tall plant height, and upright branching pattern.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4697 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.