US Plant Patent PP6254
Mortorch
Miniature rose plant named Mortorch
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 29, 2006. 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
- PP6254
- Filed
- September 29, 1986
- Granted
- August 23, 1988
- Expires
- September 29, 2006
- Assignee
- SEQUOIA NURSERY
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by orange red buds and flowers of good substance and keeping qualities.
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, rounded to upright, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of an orange red color which is modified by darker shading and lighter areas of near white and yellow; the bud and flower resembling the variety Sheri Anne (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,826) in form but with more petals; and further characterized by a plant of vigorous and compact growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings or by budding, with an abundance of small to medium size semi-glossy to matt foliage and an abundance of flowers borne both singly and in loose clusters of 3 to 5 or more.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6254 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.