US Plant Patent PP9987
Kawamoblue
Hybrid Tea rose plant named `Kawamoblue`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 15, 2015. 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
- PP9987
- Filed
- December 15, 1995
- Granted
- August 5, 1997
- Expires
- December 15, 2015
- Assignee
- CARLTON ROSE NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- KAWAMOTO HIROMOTO
Abstract
A vigorous rose plant of the Hybrid Tea class obtained as a seedling from an unnamed seed parent and a pollen parent named `Blue Moon` provides abundant long-lasting purple flowers which substantially maintain their true color on a continuous basis when grown in a greenhouse.
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 found as a seedling from an unnamed seed parent and a pollen parent entitled `Blue Moon,` characterized by the purple color of its flowers, which is maintained as flower opens, and its ability to yield flowers on a continuous basis when grown in a greenhouse, substantially as shown and described.
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