US Plant Patent PP7996
MORplati
Floribunda rose plant named `MORplati`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 28, 2011. 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
- PP7996
- Filed
- February 28, 1991
- Granted
- October 6, 1992
- Expires
- February 28, 2011
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the Floribunda class, primarily identified by its large single (5 petal) flowers with the petals being bright red orange.
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 floribunda rose plant of hardy, bushy, upright, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers, resembling the Dainty Bess cultivar in form and size, the open flower (upper surface) being near Orient Red 819/2 in color with the reverse side being near Cardinal Red 822/1, the flowers, generally having only five broad petals, being borne singly and in loose clusters; and further characterized by the plant being easy to propagate from soft wood cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of large semi-glossy foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7996 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.