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US Plant Patent PP16937

KORgretaum

Floribunda rose plant named ‘KORgretaum’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 2, 2025. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16937, the photograph of KORgretaum printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16937, 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.

The record

Patent number
PP16937
Filed
March 2, 2005
Granted
August 1, 2006
Expires
March 2, 2025
Assignee
KORDES SOEHNE ROSENSCHULEN
Inventor
KORDES TIM-HERMANN

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of rose with abundant cream white flowers and glossy foliage with excellent disease resistance. It exhibits uniform upright and bushy growth. The new variety propagates well using traditional methods. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

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 rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms abundant, attractive cream white flowers; (b) exhibits uniform upright and bushy growth habit; (c) propagates well using traditional methods, and; (d) exhibits excellent resistance to disease under normal growing conditions; substantially as herein illustrated and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16937 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.