US Plant Patent PP4705
Rose plant-Meibiranda variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 17, 1999. 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
- PP4705
- Filed
- September 17, 1979
- Granted
- May 5, 1981
- Expires
- September 17, 1999
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND MARIE L
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
A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which has double bicolored flowers and very vigorous vegetation. The petals are mimosa yellow in the center and have edges which are poppy red on the inside and red currant red on the outside. The seed parent of the new variety was the variety Ester Ofarim and the pollen parent was formed by the crossing of the variety Super Star and the variety Flirt.
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 of vegetative reproduction, as described and illustrated, characterized by the fact that: from the physical point of view the plant with green adult wood is erect, forms double flowers which are bicolored with the inside of the petals being poppy red on the edge and mimosa yellow in the center, and the outside of the petals being red currant red on the edge and mimosa yellow in the center, the petals are largely rounded with their lateral edges reflexed, and frequently exhibit a pronounced median groove; and from the biological point of view the rose plant is of very vigorous vegetation, exhibits nearly continuous flowering under glass, and forms flowers of long duration both on and off the plant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4705 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.