US Plant Patent PP5522
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 19, 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
- PP5522
- Filed
- December 19, 1983
- Granted
- July 30, 1985
- Expires
- December 19, 2003
- Inventor
- BENNETT CECILIA L D
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 its five-petaled bloom in shades ranging from Persimmon Orange with a bright base of Canary Yellow when newly opened to Blood Red at full maturity.
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, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by its single petaled blooms which range in color from Persimmon Orange with a bright Buttercup Yellow base when newly opened to varying shades of Marigold Orange, Dutch Vermilion, and finally Blood Red as the bloom matures; further characterized by an extremely vigorous growth habit, easy to propagate from cuttings, with flowers borne singly and in sprays of 3 to 5 or more.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5522 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.