US Plant Patent PP5466
Arosumo
Hybrid tea rose plant cv. Arosumo
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 13, 2003. 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
- PP5466
- Filed
- September 13, 1983
- Granted
- May 14, 1985
- Expires
- September 13, 2003
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- CHRISTENSEN JACK E
Abstract
A new hybrid yellow tea rose for cut flowers and garden decoration having as its seed parent an undisseminated seedling of Camelot × First Prize, and, as its pollen parent "Yankee Doodle". The new cultivar produces well formed yellow flowers in abundant quantities and in contrast to other yellow roses it has a very vigorous growth, is an easy to grow plant and has 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. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the hybrid tea class, substantially as herein shown and described, being particularly characterized in that its abundant production of well formed yellow flowers essentially as described and illustrated; its very vigorous growth; its well-above-average disease resistance; its well-above-average level of hardiness; its abundant foliage which clothes the entire plant and its low-thorned stems that are of suitable length for cutting.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5466 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.