SPRolife

SPRolife

Climbing miniature rose plant named ‘SPRolife’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired September 17, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on August 11, 2025. This patent earned 37 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17908, the photograph of SPRolife printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17908, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

Abstract

‘SPRolife’ is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, classified as a miniature climber. It is primarily identified by its miniature-sized, orange-red and white striped flowers borne in large clusters on long and arching canes with abundant, miniature-sized foliage. The plant can be trained as a climber or allowed to grow freestanding, where its canes will arch and form a large mound or shrub of 5 to 6 feet tall and spreading 3 feet or more from center. The plant has been noted to have very good resistance to powdery mildew.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of hard, miniature rose plant is claimed, substantially as herein illustrated and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of its miniature-sized, orange-red and white striped flowers borne in large clusters on long and arching canes with abundant, miniature-sized leaves, and having very good resistance to powdery mildew.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17908 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

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