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US Plant Patent PP5671

Minkco

Miniature rose plant `Minkco`

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
PP5671
Filed
May 2, 1984
Granted
February 25, 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 dark red color of the 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 a deep red color, often with blackish shading, with pointed buds of good substance suitable for cutting and exhibition,; and further characterized by a plant which is easy to propagate from soft wood cuttings, with an abundance of flowers usually borne singly on slender wirey stems.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5671 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.