US Plant Patent PP6000
Arolical
Hybrid tea rose plant cv. Arolical
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
- PP6000
- Filed
- September 9, 1985
- Granted
- September 1, 1987
- Expires
- September 9, 2005
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- CHRISTENSEN JACK E
Abstract
A new hybrid tea rose for garden decoration, having as its seed parent an undisseminated seedling of the cross Ivory Tower (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,658)×Angel Face (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,792) and as its pollen parent Blue Nile (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,671). The new cultivar produces large flowers of a pleasing, uniform medium-lavender coloration and with a heavy, sweet citrus-blossom fragrance. The plant is of medium height with abundant, relatively large foliage, and it displays an above-average vigor and abundance of bloom compared to other cultivars of similar coloration.
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 tea rose plant cv. Arolical and the parts thereof, substantially as shown and described herein, the plant being particularly characterized by its abundant production of large blooms of a pleasing, uniform medium-lavender coloration; its heavy, sweet citrus-blossom fragrance; its medium height and abundant, relatively large foliage; and its above-average vigor and bloom production, especially as compared to other cultivars of similar coloration.
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