US Plant Patent PP9997
Meicofum
Hybrid tea rose plant named `Meicofum`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 14, 2016. 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
- PP9997
- Filed
- June 14, 1996
- Granted
- August 12, 1997
- Expires
- June 14, 2016
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND ALAIN A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which abundantly forms attractive long-lasting bicolored blossoms that are reddish orange on the upper surface and creamy yellow on the under surface. The plant exhibits an erect growth habit and moderately strong vegetation. The new variety exhibits good disease resistance and is particularly well suited for cut flower production under greenhouse growing conditions.
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 Hybrid Tea rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms attractive long-lasting bicolored blossoms that are reddish orange on the upper surface and creamy yellow on the under surface, (b) exhibits an erect growth habit, (c) is well suited for cut flower production under greenhouse growing conditions, and (d) exhibits good disease resistance; substantially as herein shown and described.
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