US Plant Patent PP6121
Hybrid tea rose plant cv. Aromiclea
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 30, 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
- PP6121
- Filed
- December 30, 1985
- Granted
- March 8, 1988
- Expires
- December 30, 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 tea rose for garden decoration, having as its seed parent an undisseminated seedling of the cross [Camelot (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,371)× First Prize (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,774)] ×Typhoo Tea (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,845), and as its pollen parent, Lolita. The plant is a tall, very hardy outdoor seedling of the bush type, producing an abundance of large, sweetly scented blossoms that open yellow and peachy-orange, then develop a scarlet blush. The flowers' long, strong stems and urn-shaped buds make them very suitable for cutting. The plant's nearly continual bloom, unusually heavy, leathery and very glossy foliage, and well-branched habit make it an attractive garden plant, and its above-average vigor and superb disease resistance make it a low-maintenance plant, ideal for landscaping.
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. Aromiclea and the parts thereof, substantially as shown and described herein, the plant being particularly characterized by its large blossoms of a unique chatoyant orange coloration, essentially as described and illustrated herein; its sweet, moderately spicy to fruity fragrance, long, strong stems, urn-shaped buds, and attractive flower finish; its unusually heavy, leathery and very glossy foliage; its nearly continual bloom and well-branched habit; and its vigor, above-average hardiness, and well-above-average disease resistance.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6121 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.