US Plant Patent PP5222
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Floribunda rose plant--Wilblank variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 30, 2002. 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
- PP5222
- Filed
- June 30, 1982
- Granted
- April 24, 1984
- Expires
- June 30, 2002
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS J BENJAMIN
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Floribunda rose plant is provided having highly attractive double white flowers with a yellow center. The new variety resulted from the crossing of the Ma Perkins variety U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,143) and an unnamed seedling resulting from the cross of the Charlie McCarthy variety (non-patented) and the Easter Morning variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,177). The new variety is a vigorous grower and can easily attain a height of twenty-four inches in a growing season. This new variety is particularly well suited for garden use, but also thrives in a greenhouse environment.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Floribunda rose plant, substantially as illustrated and described, wherein: (a) from the physical standpoint the plant with light green adult wood has a low sometimes irregular bushy growth habit, forms dark green shiny leaves, and forms double flowers which are white with a bright yellow center; and (b) from the biological standpoint the plant has vigorous and sometimes regular vegetation, exhibits copious and repeated florescence, exhibits the ability of its flowers to clean well, and exhibits the ability to grow well in either an outdoor or greenhouse environment.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5222 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.