US Plant Patent PP8495
Meimacar
Hybrid tea rose plant named `Meimacar`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 30, 2012. 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
- PP8495
- Filed
- November 30, 1992
- Granted
- December 14, 1993
- Expires
- November 30, 2012
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND ALAIN A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which forms attractive fully double yellow blossoms on very long stems. The blossoms are Primrose Yellow and are more or less suffused with pale Aureolin Yellow. The buds are very large. The blossoms are very long lasting when cut and placed in a vase and their cleaning ability is good. The plant exhibits an upright growth habit, vigorous dark green vegetation, and particularly is suited for cut flower production under greenhouse growing conditions. Also, the new variety exhibits excellent 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 the Hybrid Tea rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms large yellow buds, (b) forms in abundance on very long reddish-tinted stems attractive long lasting fully double yellow flowers which are a Primrose Yellow and are more or less suffused with Aureolin Yellow, (c) exhibits an upright growth habit, (d) exhibits vigorous dark green vegetation, (e) is particularly suited for cut flower production under greenhouse growing conditions, and (f) exhibits excellent disease resistance; substantially as herein shown and described.
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