US Plant Patent PP7916
Deltesse
Rose plant--Deltesse variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 7, 2010. 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
- PP7916
- Filed
- September 7, 1990
- Granted
- July 21, 1992
- Expires
- September 7, 2010
- Inventor
- Georges Delbard
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of hybrid tea rose plant is provided which abundantly forms attractive double white flowers which exhibit a hint of pink towards the center. Such flowers are long lasting and comprise petals which detach cleanly. The plant exhibits an upright to bushy growth habit, forms vigorous vegetation, and is well suited for greenhouse forcing for cut flower production. Additionally, the plant is not particularly susceptible to diseases.
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 hybrid tea rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) from a physical point of view forms bronze green mature wood, assumes an upright to bushy growth habit, and forms attractive double white flowers with consistent petals having a hint of pink towards the center, and (b) from the biological point of view forms vigorous vegetation, produces flowers in abundance, exhibits the ability readily to be forced, is not particularly susceptible to diseases, and forms long lasting flowers comprising petals which detach cleanly; substantially as herein shown and described.
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