US Plant Patent PP5910
Minrco
Miniature rose plant named Minrco
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 29, 2005. 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
- PP5910
- Filed
- April 29, 1985
- Granted
- March 24, 1987
- Expires
- April 29, 2005
- 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 and white bi-color coloration of the very double flowers and by the profusion of bloom.
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, dwarf, bushy, upright, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of deep pink to medium red (with pink/yellowish reverse), being of a shade generally near Geranium Lake 20/1 (or darker) on the top surface and yellowish to pink on reverse, the bud and flower resembling the variety Over The Rainbow (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,472) in form and size but deeper in color; and further characterized by a plant of vigorous and compact growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings, with an abundance of flowers borne usually one to the stem.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5910 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.