US Plant Patent PP4978
Klondike
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 5, 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
- PP4978
- Filed
- August 5, 1980
- Granted
- January 25, 1983
- Expires
- August 5, 2000
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- JESSEL JR WALTER H; DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Klondike and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; dark yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 95 to 110 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown as a pinched spray pot; and semi-spreading 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 Klondike, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; dark yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 95 to 110 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height; and semi-spreading branching pattern.
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