US Plant Patent PP11577
Meivahyn
Ground cover rose plant named `Meivahyn`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 9, 2018. 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
- PP11577
- Filed
- September 9, 1998
- Granted
- October 17, 2000
- Expires
- September 9, 2018
- Assignee
- CP DELAWARE INC
- Inventor
- MEILLAND ALAIN A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of ground cover rose plant (i.e., garden rose plant) is provided which forms in abundance on a substantially continuous basis attractive semi-double blossoms that are white in coloration. The bud coloration is Empire Yellow suffused with very light red. The vegetation is vigorous and the growth habit is broad. Attractive ornamental medium green and semi-glossy foliage is formed. Very good disease resistance is exhibited. Additionally, the new variety grows very well on its own roots following asexual reproduction by cuttings.
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 ground cover rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) abundantly and substantially continuously forms attractive semi-double blossoms that are white in coloration, (b) exhibits a broad growth habit, (c) forms vigorous vegetation, (d) forms attractive ornamental medium green semi-glossy foliage, (e) propagates well by cuttings, and (f) exhibits very good disease resistance with respect to black spot and powdery mildew; substantially as herein shown and described.
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