US Plant Patent PP8031
Miniature rose plant named Lavquest
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 22, 2011. 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
- PP8031
- Filed
- March 22, 1991
- Granted
- November 17, 1992
- Expires
- March 22, 2011
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
A new miniature rose plant producing light pink flowers. su SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant of the miniature rose class, which was originated by my crossing as seed parent the variety known as `Loving Touch` and as pollen parent the variety known as `Ontario Celebration`. The varietal denomination of this new rose is `Lavquest`. Among the novel characteristics possessed by this new variety which primarily distinguish it from its parents and all other varieties of which I am aware are its ease of propagation from softwood cuttings, dwarf compact habit, soft pink flower color, good shelf-life and resistance to powdery mildew. Lavquest is particularly suited for commercial pot rose production for 4-inch or 5-inch pots because of its ease of rooting from softwood cuttings, uniform flowering habit, long flower life on the plant and bloom production in short periods. Asexual reproduction by propagation of softwood cuttings of the new variety as performed in Somis, Calif. shows that the foregoing and other distinguishing characteristics come true to form and are established and transmitted through succeeding propagations.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the miniature rose class, substantially as shown and described.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8031 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.