US Plant Patent PP8150
Touch
Chrysanthemum plant -- Touch cultivar
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 25, 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
- PP8150
- Filed
- June 25, 1991
- Granted
- February 16, 1993
- Expires
- June 25, 2011
Abstract
A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Touch is provided. The new cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein the Dinara variety (non-patented in the United States) was pollinated by the Penny Lane cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,238). More specifically, the new cultivar forms attractive bicolored single anemone flowers wherein the petals are yellow and the disc florets particularly towards the center of the cushion bear a distinctive orange-brown coloration (as illustrated). The inflorescence tends to be of the flat capitulum type when mature. The response period of the flowers is approximately eight weeks. The new cultivar is particularly suited for use in the production of a cut 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 Touch substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive single anemone flowers having an overall diameter of approximately 55 to 65 mm., yellow-ray florets, and disc florets particularly towards the center of the cushion which are orange-brown in coloration, (b) bears flowers in a generally flat capitulum configuration when mature, (c) exhibits a flower response period of approximately eight 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 PP8150 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.