US Plant Patent PP9790
WELangel
Miniature rose plant named `WELangel`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 16, 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
- PP9790
- Filed
- January 16, 1996
- Granted
- February 4, 1997
- Expires
- January 16, 2016
- Assignee
- NOR 3 EAST MINIATURE ROSES INC
- Inventor
- WELLS VERLIE WHITSON
Abstract
WELangel is a miniature rose which can be grown quite satisfactorily in a greenhouse or as a hardy, garden perennial. It blooms continually throughout the growing season with buds and flowers of a bright medium pink blend. Blooms are most often borne singly on stems up to 20 inches long but also in small clusters, and of exhibition quality. This plant is ideal as for use as a specimen plant, in a border, and for cut flowers. The plant grows 24 to 30 inches tall and has dark-green, matte foliage. This variety does need winter protection in severe climates.
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 vigorous, hardy, upright, and well branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of a bright medium pink with some yellow/orange at the base of the petals, borne mostly singly on long stems up to 20 inches long for use as cut flowers or for exhibition; also borne in small clusters making it a good specimen plant; and further characterized by a compact plant with ample dark green, matte foliage creating a plant that is attractive as a pot plant or garden perennial, and easy to propagate from cuttings.
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