Robert H Zeliff

US Patent:

PP99139, Jun 3, 1997

Filed:

Apr 15, 1996

Appl. No.:

8/632133

Inventors:

Robert W. Zeliff - Palmetto FL

Assignee:

Manatee Fruit Company - Palmetto FL

International Classification:

A01H 500

US Classification:

Plt 79

Abstract:

A Chrysanthemum plant named Copper Charm particularly characterized by its flat capitulum form; decorative capitulum type; copper-bronze ray floret color; diameter across face of capitulum of 101 to 121 mm when fully opened, when grown as a pinched disbudded pot mum; photoperiodic flowering response to short days of 53 to 59 days; plant height, with 14 to 16 long days after sticking unrooted cuttings and with 1 to 2 applications of 2500 ppm B-9 SP, ranges from 23 to 28 cm when grown as a pinched pot mum with 4 cuttings in a 15 cm pot; branching pattern is spreading, each plant developing 4 to 6 laterals after pinch; and recommended as a disbudded pot mum.