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US Plant Patent PP6546

Minafco

Miniature rose plant/Minafco

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 29, 2007. 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
PP6546
Filed
April 29, 1987
Granted
January 17, 1989
Expires
April 29, 2007

Abstract

This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant primarily identified by the unusual orange color, the petals being dark orange on outside surface and a lighter orange on inside surface.

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, upright, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of exhibition form, essentially orange in color, the petals on outside surface being darker orange than the orange on inside surface, and further characterized by a plant of compact well rounded shape; vigorous, with the main stems and shoots being of average thorniness, the said plant being easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of small semi-glossy to matt foliage and an abundance of flowers borne singly or several to the stem in loose clusters.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6546 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.