US Plant Patent PP6163
Meijunka
Rose plant--Meijunka variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 27, 2006. 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
- PP6163
- Filed
- February 27, 1986
- Granted
- May 3, 1988
- Expires
- February 27, 2006
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND MARIE-LOUISE
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the Intermediate Class is provided which forms elegant double blossoms. The blossoms are neyron pink in coloration and tend to be darker on the upper surface than on the under surface. The petals commonly exhibit attractive wavy edges. The plant exhibits a strong and vigorous growth habit and is well suited for greenhouse culture to produce cut flowers. Good resistance to fungus diseases is manifest.
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 Intermediate Class rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms elegant double neyron pink blossoms which tend to be darker on the upper surface than on the under surface, (b) forms petals which have wavy edges, (c) is particularly well suited for growing under greenhouse conditions, (d) exhibits a strong and vigorous growth habit, and (e) exhibits good resistance to fungal diseases; substantially as herein shown and described.
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