US Plant Patent PP14176
KORjafir
Hybrid Tea rose plant ‘KORjafir’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 10, 2022. 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
- PP14176
- Filed
- September 10, 2002
- Granted
- September 23, 2003
- Expires
- September 10, 2022
- Assignee
- KORDES WILHELM
- Inventor
- KORDES WILHELM
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant which have attractive magenta-purple colored flowers and attractive dark green and glossy foliage. The buds are large and well turbinated. This new variety is having high production of long stems with a long vase life, vigorous, upright growth, and good tolerance to powdery mildew. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is well suitable for year round production of cut flowers in commercial glass houses as a flowering cut rose. This and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.
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 illustrated and described as a distinct and novel rose variety due to its abundant magenta-purple colored flowers, attractive long lasting foliage, vigorous and upright growth, year round flowering under glasshouse conditions, suitability for production from softwood cuttings, and durable flowers and foliage which make the variety suitable for distribution in the floral industry.
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