US Plant Patent PP4858
Temptation
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 27, 2000. 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
- PP4858
- Filed
- February 27, 1980
- Granted
- June 15, 1982
- Expires
- February 27, 2000
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- MILLER DENNIS E; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant which is a sport of the cultivar Tempo, being distinguished from its parental cultivar by its dark purple ray floret color and smaller diameter across face of inflorescence.
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 Temptation, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; dark purple ray floret color, with minimal color oxidation; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 90 to 110 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height; and semi-spreading branching pattern.
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