US Plant Patent PP5519
Macauck
Hybrid tea rose plant vc. Macauck
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 30, 2003. 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
- PP5519
- Filed
- November 30, 1983
- Granted
- July 23, 1985
- Expires
- November 30, 2003
- Assignee
- ARMSTRONG NURSERIES INC
- Inventor
- MCGREDY IV SAMUEL
Abstract
A new hybrid red tea rose for cut flowers and garden decoration, having as its seed parent Red Planet and as its pollen parent Pharoah, Plant Pat. No. 2825. The new cultivar produces nearly continual, abundant, brilliant and lasting long-stemmed red flowers with a heavy petal substance lending to their longer-than-average longevity, both in the garden and in the vase. The cultivar exhibits consistent vigor and bloom performance under a wide range of climatic conditions and has above-average disease resistance under Ontario, California, 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 rose plant of the hybrid tea class, substantially as herein shown and described, being particularly characterized by the brilliant, lasting red coloration of its flowers, essentially as described and illustrated; its heavy petal substance that lends to longer-than-average flower longevity both in the garden and in the vase; its consistent vigor and bloom performance under a wide range of climatic conditions; its above-average disease resistance; and its abundant and nearly continual production of long-stemmed flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5519 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.