US Plant Patent PP8504
Meilipo
Miniature rose plant named `Meilipo`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 30, 2012. 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
- PP8504
- Filed
- October 30, 1992
- Granted
- December 21, 1993
- Expires
- October 30, 2012
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND ALAIN A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the miniature class is provided which abundantly forms attractive fully double Carmine Rose blossoms of stable coloration which are borne in clusters. The plant exhibits an upright growth habit, and forms very vigorous vegetation. The plant is well adapted to greenhouse forcing while grown in small containers, and is particularly well suited for use as a flowering pot plant when grown indoors or outdoors. Additionally, the plant is not particularly susceptible to diseases.
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 miniature rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms in abundance attractive fully double blossoms which are borne in clusters and are of a stable Carmine Rose coloration, (b) forms very vigorous vegetation, (c) exhibits an upright growth habit, (d) is well adapted to greenhouse forcing while growing in small containers, and (e) is particularly suited for growing as a flowering pot plant for indoor and outdoor decoration; substantially as herein shown and described.
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