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US Plant Patent PP5329

Miniature rose plant

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired March 9, 2003. 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
PP5329
Filed
March 9, 1983
Granted
November 13, 1984
Expires
March 9, 2003
Inventor
STRAWN LESLIE E

No cultivar name of record

This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.

Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.

Abstract

The subject of the present disclosure is a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant characterized by deep clear yellow buds and flowers of distinctive form and further indentified by the erect, dwarf, compact plant.

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, upright, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers which are in a color hue similar to Rise and Shine (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,231) giving a coloring effect ot tints and tones of a deep clear yellow and resembling Over the Rainbow (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,472) in form and size, having buds and flowers of a distinct and unusual appearance as compared to other miniature rose plants; said flowers being fully double, uniquely formed with high centers; and further charactized by its vigor, abundant foliage and ease of propagation from soft wood cuttings and by budding, and with an abundance of flowers.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5329 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.