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US Plant Patent PP5552

Hombre

New rose plant--Hombre

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 22, 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
PP5552
Filed
December 22, 1983
Granted
September 10, 1985
Expires
December 22, 2003
Inventor
JOLLY NELSON F

Abstract

A new miniature rose variety of near white and Spanish orange coloring long lasting on the plant and as a cut flower.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the miniature rose class, substantially as shown and described, characterized particularly by exceptionally heavy petaled flowers borne primarily one to a stem of good form with petals reflexing upon opening while retaining symmetrical configuration and flowers which are very long lasting on the plant and after cutting which flowers combine near white coloring of outer petals with Spanish orange flower centers where petals remain bunched.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5552 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.