US Plant Patent PP5166
Mellow
Chrysanthemum plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 18, 2002. 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
- PP5166
- Filed
- January 18, 1982
- Granted
- December 27, 1983
- Expires
- January 18, 2002
- Assignee
- YODER BROTHERS INC
- Inventor
- DUFFETT WILLIAM E
Abstract
A chrysanthemum plant known by the cultivar name Mellow and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; dark yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week photoperiodic flowering response to short days; tall plant height when grown single stem; 15 to 20 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays, and slow development of tight green discs.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct plant of Chrysanthemum morifolium, Ramat., known by the cultivar name of Mellow, as described and illustrated, and particularly characterized as to uniqueness by the combined characteristics of flat capitulum form; daisy capitulum type; dark yellow ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum ranging from 70 to 90 mm. at maturity; uniform nine week flowering response; tall plant height when grown single stem; 15-20 cm. peduncles on open, normally terminal sprays, and slow development of tight green discs.
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