US Plant Patent PP9375
X-Rated
Miniature rose plant named `X-Rated`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 22, 2014. 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
- PP9375
- Filed
- December 22, 1994
- Granted
- November 21, 1995
- Expires
- December 22, 2014
- Inventor
- BENNETT CECILIA L D; O'BRIEN SPECIAL ADMINISTRATOR
Abstract
The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, named `X-Rated`, which is characterized by buds and blooms in shades of creamy-white with a blush of pink on the outermost petals. Blooms of this rose are of hybrid tea form and are borne singly and in sprays of 3 to 5 or more. The plant is bushy, 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 substantially as herein described and illustrated named `X-Rated`; the plant being characterized by its hardy, dwarf, vigorous growth; by its well branched and attractive appearance; by its hybrid tea form blooms which range from creamy white to near Naples Yellow with a pink blush on the outermost petals of near Shell Pink to near Neyron Rose; and by its relative abundance of blooms, which are usually borne one to a stem but occasionally in sprays of 3 to 5 or more with the blooms held very erect and well above the foliage.
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