US Plant Patent PP6468
Miniature rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 27, 2007. 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
- PP6468
- Filed
- January 27, 1987
- Granted
- December 13, 1988
- Expires
- January 27, 2007
- Assignee
- SEQUOIA NURSERY
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
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
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of Floribunda rose plant primarily identified by its large, few petaled (single) flowers and unique pink blend coloring.
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 rose plant of the Floribunda class, of hardy, dwarf, bushy, rounded, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of an unusual pink/lavender blend, the bud being pointed and quite slender in the early opening stages, with the open flower being single with 5-7 wavey petals, and further characterized by a plant of compact, vigorous, well rounded shape, with main stems and shoots, moderately thorny, the said plant being easy to propagate from soft wood cuttings and by budding, with an abundance of large semi-glossy to glossy foliage, the flowers usually being borne several together in loose clusters on medium length stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6468 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.