US Plant Patent PP5606
Minnco
Miniature rose plant/Minnco
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 30, 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
- PP5606
- Filed
- January 30, 1984
- Granted
- December 24, 1985
- Expires
- January 30, 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 pink color of the very double flowers and by the prostrate spreading habit of growth.
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, dense, much branched, prostrate (spreading) habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a medium pink color, being of a shade generally near Fuchsine Pink 627/1 or lighter, the bud and flower resembling the variety Stacey Sue (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,158) in form and size; and further characterized by a plant of vigorous, much branched, prostrate growth habit, easy to propagate from cutting, with an abundance of flowers borne usually in clusters of 5 to 15.
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