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US Plant Patent PP5357

Mincco

Miniature rose plant--Mincco

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
PP5357
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 pink and white bi-color coloration 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, upright, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a deep pink and white bi-color, being of a shade generally near Tyrian Rose 24 to Tyrian Rose 24/2 (or similar), on the top surface and near white on reverse, the bud and flower resembling the variety Toy Clown (Plant Pat. No. 2,909) 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.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5357 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.