US Plant Patent PP8045

Yellow Impala

Chrysanthemum plant -- Yellow Impala 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: PP8045
Filed: April 2, 1991
Granted: November 24, 1992
Expires: April 2, 2011

Abstract

A new and distinct cultivar of Chrysanthemum plant named Yellow Impala is provided. The new cultivar is a spontaneous mutation of the Cream Impala cultivar (non-patented in the United States). More specifically, the new cultivar forms attractive yellow single flowers having a yellow-green center when immature. 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 Yellow Impala, substantially as herein shown and described, which: (a) exhibits attractive yellow single flowers having an overall diameter of 70 to 80 mm. wherein the disc florets are yellow-green in coloration when immature, (b) exhibits a flower response period of approximately nine weeks, and (c) 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 PP8045 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.