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US Plant Patent PP4961

Meijidiro

Miniature rose plant--Meijidiro variety

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 2, 2001. 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
PP4961
Filed
June 2, 1981
Granted
December 7, 1982
Expires
June 2, 2001
Inventor
MEILLAND MARIE L

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the Miniature Class is provided having double flowers which are azalea pink in color. The present variety is a bud mutation of the Meijikatar Variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,682) which has double flowers which are brilliant vermillion red in color.

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 miniature rose plant which originated as a bud mutation of the Meijikatar variety, substantially as shown and described, having azalea pink double flowers instead of the vermillion red double flowers exhibited by the Meijikatar variety.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4961 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.