US Plant Patent PP4973
Echo
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 10, 2001. 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
- PP4973
- Filed
- June 10, 1981
- Granted
- January 11, 1983
- Expires
- June 10, 2001
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- MEEK JACK M; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Echo and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form, spooned anemone capitulum type; ivory white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 75 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photo-periodic flowering response to short days; medium 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 of Echo, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; spooned anemone capitulum type; ivory white ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 75 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; medium plant height, and upright branching pattern.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4973 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.