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US Plant Patent PP8167

Snow Bijoux

Chrysanthemum plant -- Snow Bijoux cultivar

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 26, 2011. 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
PP8167
Filed
June 26, 1991
Granted
March 2, 1993
Expires
June 26, 2011

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Snow Bijoux is provided. The new culivar is a spontaneous mutation of the Bijoux cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,241). More specifically, the new cultivar forms attractive white flowers of the spider anemone type having a yellow center. The white tubular ray florets of the Snow Bijoux cultivar (as illustrated) can be readily distinguished from those of the Bijoux cultivar which are soft pink in coloration. The inflorescence tends to be relatively flat in configuration when mature. The response period of the flowers is approximately nine weeks. The new cultivar is particularly suited for use in the production of a cut spider anemone spray under greenhouse conditions.

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 cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Snow Bijoux substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive spider anemone flowers having an overall diameter of approximately 60 mm. wherein the tubular ray florets are white and the disc florets are yellow in coloration, said flowers being distinguishable from those of the Bijoux cultivar wherein the tubular ray florets are soft pink, (b) bears flowers in a generally flat capitulum form when mature, (c) exhibits a flower response period of approximately nine weeks, (d) forms attractive dark green foliage, and (e) has the ability to produce flowers of commercially acceptable quality throughout the year in a cut mum production program.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8167 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.