US Plant Patent PP4590
Chieftain
Red chrysanthemum named Chieftain
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 5, 1999. 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
- PP4590
- Filed
- March 5, 1979
- Granted
- September 2, 1980
- Expires
- March 5, 1999
- Assignee
- PAN AMERICAN PLANT CO
- Inventor
- SHOESMITH LEONARD H
Abstract
A new chrysanthemum distinguished by its vivid dark red composite flowers of medium-large size which are borne in a cyme having eight to ten open blooms on a rigid and erect stem. The foliage is large and abundant and the flower color is excellent in hot weather, which makes this plant a very fine red chrysanthemum for year around flowering, and the peduncles are long enough for cutting out individual flowers for various special uses.
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 chrysanthemum cultivar substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its medium-large composite flowers having dark red ray florets radiating from a disc having bright yellow and green florets, by its profuse production of open blooms borne on rigid, erect stems, and by its abundant foliage of relatively large size.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4590 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.