US Plant Patent PP9776
Sweet Revenge
Miniature rose plant named `Sweet Revenge`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 2, 2016. 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
- PP9776
- Filed
- January 2, 1996
- Granted
- January 7, 1997
- Expires
- January 2, 2016
- Inventor
- O'BRIEN SUSAN M; BENNETT CECILIA L D
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `Sweet Revenge` which is characterized by buds and blooms in shades of pale orange with a blush of deep orange on the outermost petals. Blooms of this rose are usually borne one to a stem with hybrid tea form and in sprays of 3 to 5 or more. The bush is vigorous, well-branched and produces moderate to heavy blooms.
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, named `Sweet Revenge`, hardy, dwarf, vigorous growth, well-branched and attractive in appearance, substantially as illustrated and described; characterized by its hybrid tea form blooms, ranging from near Chinese Coral to near Carrot Red with a deeper orange blush on the outermost petals of near Carrot Red to near Mars Orange, which are abundant on the bush and usually borne one to a stem but occasionally in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.
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