US Plant Patent PP4722
Viva
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 8, 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
- PP4722
- Filed
- January 8, 1979
- Granted
- May 19, 1981
- Expires
- January 8, 1999
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- MEEK JACK M; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chyrsanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Viva and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; anemone capitulum type; red-bronze ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 45 to 60 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a pinched spray pot, and 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 of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., plant known by the cultivar name Viva, as illustrated and described, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; anemone capitulum type; red-bronze ray floret color, with minimal color oxidation; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 45 to 60 mm. at maturity; uniform eight week flowering response; tall plant height, and upright branching pattern.
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