US Plant Patent PP5356
Minaco
Miniature rose plant--Minaco
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 5, 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
- PP5356
- Filed
- May 5, 1983
- Granted
- November 27, 1984
- Expires
- May 5, 2003
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS ERNEST D
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by the deep lavender color of the very double 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, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a mauve or lavender color, being of a shade generally near Lilac Purple 031/1 l to 031/2, the bud and flower resembling the variety Over the Rainbow (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,472) in form and size but having more petals; and further characterized by a plant of vigorous and compact growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings, with an abundance of flowers borne usually one to the stem.
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