US Plant Patent PP4682
Meijikatar
Miniature rose plant--Meijikatar variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 11, 1999. 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
- PP4682
- Filed
- December 11, 1979
- Granted
- April 7, 1981
- Expires
- December 11, 1999
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND MARIE L
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the Miniature Class is provided having double flowers which are brilliant vermillion red in color. The seed parent of the new variety was the variety Meichanso and the pollen parent was obtained by the crossing of the variety Meidacinu and the variety Duchess of Windsor.
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 characterized by the fact that: from the physical point of view, the plant with brownish green adult wood is bushy and produces double flowers of attractive form which are brilliant vermillion red in color having petals of good substance; and from the biological point of view has vigorous vegetation, abundantly forms flowers of long duration, having petals which drop off cleanly, and average resistance to diseases; substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4682 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.