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
- Assignee
- SANDYLAND NURSERY COMPANY INC
- 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.
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