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US Plant Patent PP4883

Accord

Chrysanthemum plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 30, 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
PP4883
Filed
June 30, 1980
Granted
August 31, 1982
Expires
June 30, 2000
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 bronze ray floret color; yellow-green (immature) to yellow (mature) disc floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 75 to 100 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a single stem cut spray; medium peduncle length, 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 Accord, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; dark red bronze ray floret color; yellow-green (immature) to yellow (mature) disc floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 75 to 100 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height, short peduncle length; and semi-upright branching pattern.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4883 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.