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US Plant Patent PP8043

Town Talk

Chrysanthemum plant--Town Talk cultivar

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 2, 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
PP8043
Filed
April 2, 1991
Granted
November 24, 1992
Expires
April 2, 2011

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Town Talk is provided. The new cultivar was the result of a controlled breeding program wherein the Fanfare cultivar (non-patented in the United States) was pollinated by the Lucky Strike cultivar (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 6,333). More specifically, the new cultivar forms attractive large yellow single flowers having a green center when immature. The inflorescence tends to be somewhat pyramidal in configuration. The response period of the flowers is approximately nine weeks. The new cultivar is particularly suited for use in the production of a cut single 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 Town Talk, substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive large yellow single flowers having an overall diameter of approximately 80 to 85 mm. wherein the disc florets are green in coloration when immature, (b) bears flowers in a somewhat pyramidal configuration, (c) exhibits a flower response period of approximately nine weeks, and (d) 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 PP8043 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.