US Plant Patent PP5673
Delmator
Hybrid tea rose plant cv. Delmator
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 18, 2004. 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
- PP5673
- Filed
- May 18, 1984
- Granted
- February 25, 1986
- Expires
- May 18, 2004
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- DELBARD GEORGES A
Abstract
A new hybrid tea rose of the tall bush type, especially suited for greenhouse cut flower production. The new cultivar blooms nearly continuously throughout the year, producing an abundance of orange-red flowers, with petals reflexed outward at maturity, on long stems. Buds are characteristically long and pointed. The plant produces abundant, deep green foliage and displays 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, essentially as herein illustrated and described, being particularly characterized by its flowers of a uniform orange-red coloration; its long, pointed bud form; its abundant and nearly continual year-round production of blooms borne on long cutting stems; its abundant, deep green foliage; and its above-average disease resistance.
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