US Plant Patent PP5436
Miniature rose
Cottontail--Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 1, 2003. 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
- PP5436
- Filed
- September 1, 1983
- Granted
- April 16, 1985
- Expires
- September 1, 2003
- Assignee
- BENNETT CECELIA LUCY DAPHNE
- Inventor
- STRAWN LESLIE E
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named "Cottontail", which is characterized by its vigorous growth habit and abundance of white blooms, borne usually on sprays of 6 to 12 or more blooms.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant named "Cottontail" of hardy, dwarf, bushy, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its abundance of white blooms and having an extremely vigorous growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings, with flowers usually borne in sprays of 6 to 12 or more.
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