US Plant Patent PP17873
SPRoheather
Miniature rose plant named ‘SPRoheather’
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 5, 2025. 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
- PP17873
- Filed
- May 5, 2005
- Granted
- July 17, 2007
- Expires
- May 5, 2025
- Assignee
- NOR EAST MINIATURE ROSES INC
- Inventor
- SPROUL JAMES
Abstract
‘SPRoheather’ is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, primarily identified by its fully double, classic hybrid tea form flowers of a medium pink, borne in clusters on a strong and upright plant. Flowers last a long time both on the plant and as cut flowers. Its dark green, semi-glossy foliage has shown exceptional resistance to powdery mildew.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
1. A new and distinct cultivar of hardy, miniature rose plant is claimed, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a medium pink, that open slowly, having long, tapered, hybrid-tea form buds, sepals reflexing well ahead of the opening bloom, and with the flowers being borne primarily in clusters on an upright and well-branched plant with dark green, semi-glossy foliage and easy to reproduce by budding or soft wood cuttings.
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