US Plant Patent PP5677
Minjco
Miniature rose plant Minjco`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 2, 2004. 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
- PP5677
- Filed
- May 2, 1984
- Granted
- March 4, 1986
- Expires
- May 2, 2004
- Inventor
- WILLIAMS ERNEST D
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by the light pink color and exhibition form of buds and flowers.
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, rounded, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are of light pink (to coral pink) coloring, the buds and flowers resembling Over the Rainbow (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,472) in form and size, produced on a plant of compact growth habit; and further characterized by (1) a plant which is easy to propagate from soft wood cuttings and (2) a plant with deep green, glossy, disease resistant foliage, with an abundance of flowers usually borne singly on slender wirey stems.
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