US Plant Patent PP5306
Bit O' Gold
Miniature rose plant `Bit O' Gold`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 10, 2002. 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
- PP5306
- Filed
- May 10, 1982
- Granted
- October 30, 1984
- Expires
- May 10, 2002
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS ERNEST D
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by the clear bright yellow color of the flowers and by the profusion of bloom.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of hardy; dwarf; bushy; rounded; much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a rich gold yellow color, being of a shade (or range) generally near Cadmium Orange 8/2 to Saffron Yellow 7/2 (or similar), the buds and flowers resembling the variety Gold Coin (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 2,921) in form and size; and further characterized by a plant of vigorous and compact growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings, with an abundance of small to medium size semi-glossy to matt foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose cluster.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5306 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.