US Plant Patent PP9979
Meirokoi
Hybrid Tea rose plant named `Meirokoi`
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
- PP9979
- Filed
- June 14, 1996
- Granted
- July 29, 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 and continuously forms attractive long-lasting double blossoms that are Lemon Yellow and veined and edged with a light suffusion of Poppy Red. The plant exhibits an bushy growth habit and very strong vegetation. The leaflets are glossy and contrast nicely with the bright yellow blossoms. The blossom configuration resembles that of old roses. Good disease resistance is exhibited particularly with respect to Marssonina disease. The new variety is well suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in the landscape.
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 continuously and in abundance attractive double Lemon Yellow blossoms that are veined and edged with a light suffusion of Poppy Red, (b) exhibits a bushy growth habit, (c) is well suited for growing as attractive ornamentation in the landscape, and (d) exhibits good disease resistance; substantially as herein shown and described.
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