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US Plant Patent PP6791

Meibarke

Rose plant--Meibarke variety

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired December 14, 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
PP6791
Filed
December 14, 1987
Granted
May 9, 1989
Expires
December 14, 2007

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the Miniature Class is provided which forms in abundance highly attractive bicolored semi-double blossoms. The blossoms are whitish in coloration and are suffused at the margins with cardinal pink. The plant is very low and dense and reflowers well. It is particularly well suited for use as attractive ornamentation when grown as a flowering pot plant either indoors or outdoors.

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 Miniature rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms in abundance on a continuous basis attractive semi-double bicolored blossoms which are whitish in coloration and are suffused at wide margins with cardinal pink, (b) exhibits a bushy growth habit, and (c) forms a very low and dense plant; substantially as herein shown and described, together with the parts thereof.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6791 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.