BENfebu

BENfebu

Miniature rose plant named ‘BENfebu’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 13, 2022. 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.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP16483, the photograph of BENfebu printed in the patent.

Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP16483, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

Abstract

‘BENfebu’ is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant primarily identified by its dark red flowers and petals of flushed white reverse, of hybrid tea form. There is little fade to the color of the flowers. Borne mostly in small clusters of 3 to 4, there are enough borne singly to use for exhibition cut flowers. The plant is upright, well branched and vigorous, clothed in dark green semi-glossy foliage.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of hardy miniature rose plant is claimed, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by dark red, non-fading blooms of hybrid tea form, showing a lighter reverse before it is full open on an upright, vigorous plant.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP16483 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

The record

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