US Plant Patent PP5998
Hybrid shrub rose plant cv. Aropiclu
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 9, 2005. 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
- PP5998
- Filed
- September 9, 1985
- Granted
- September 1, 1987
- Expires
- September 9, 2005
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- CHRISTENSEN JACK E
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new hybrid shrub rose for garden decoration, having as its seed parent the hybrid floribunda rose Zorina (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,321) and as its pollen parent an undisseminated, open-pollinated seedling of Gartendirektor Otto Linne. The new cultivar produces extremely abundant quantities of unusually shaped, small, coral pink flowers that are borne in very large pyramidal clusters and are produced almost continuously throughout the growing season. Foliage is narrow and elongated, with highly serrated edges. The plant's growth habit is semi-pendulous, yielding a large, well-filled and rounded bush with flowers and foliage extending to the ground. It is a low-maintenance plant, displaying female sterility and well-above-average disease resistance.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinct variety of hybrid shrub rose plant cv. Aropiclu and the parts thereof, substantially as shown and described herein, the plant being particularly characterized by its unusual open flower form, essentially as described and illustrated herein; its extremely abundant production of flowers in very large pyramidal clusters; its female sterility and well-above-average disease resistance; its semi-pendulous branching habit, yielding a large, well-filled and rounded bush with flowers and foliage extending to the ground; its very narrow, elongated foliage with highly serrated edges; and its nearly continuous production of flowers throughout the growing season.
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