US Plant Patent PP7971
Miniature rose plant named Irresistible
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 31, 2010. 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
- PP7971
- Filed
- December 31, 1990
- Granted
- September 15, 1992
- Expires
- December 31, 2010
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety if miniature rose plant, named `Irresistible`, which is characterized by white blooms with inner petals ranging from pale Azalea Pink to pale Shell Pink which open to completely white. Blooms of this rose are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form but on occasion may be produced in sprays of 3 to 5 or more. The bush is vigorous, well-branched and produces moderate to heavy quantity of blooms. (More detailed description to follow.)
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, named `Irresistible`, or hardy, dwarf, vigorous growth, well-branched and attractive in appearance, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its hybrid tea form blooms of white with inner petals ranging from pale Azalea Pink to pale Shell Pink which open white, with flowers usually borne one to a stem but occasionally in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7971 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.