JENtwelve

JENtwelve

Miniature rose plant ‘JENtwelve’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 4, 2025. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on March 23, 2025. This patent earned 73 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP17545, the photograph of JENtwelve printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP17545, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

Abstract

A new miniature rose plant which has abundant, long lasting, red colored flowers and attractive foliage. The variety successfully propagates from softwood cuttings and is suitable for year round production in commercial glass houses as a flowering pot plant. This new and distinct variety has shown to be uniform and stable in the resulting generations from asexual propagation.

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1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the miniature class, substantially as herein illustrated and described as a distinct and novel rose variety due to its abundant, long lasting, red colored flowers, attractive long lasting foliage, vigorous and compact growth, year round flowering under glasshouse conditions, suitability for production from softwood cuttings in pots, and durable flowers and foliage which make the variety suitable for distribution in the floral industry.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP17545 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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Abstract