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US Plant Patent PP5958

Meipinjid

Rose plant--Meipinjid variety

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 9, 2005. 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
PP5958
Filed
August 9, 1985
Granted
April 28, 1987
Expires
August 9, 2005
Inventor
MEILLAND MARIE-LOUISE

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the Miniature Class is provided which resulted as a bud mutation of the Meijidiro variety. The new variety has attractive double flowers which are of a deeper hue of pink than its parent. Also, the new variety exhibits a more vigorous growth habit than its parent. Plants of the new variety can be grown to advantage in the landscape as a small flowering woody plant or in pots indoors.

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 which originated as a bud mutation of the Meijidiro variety, substantially as shown and described, having flowers which are of deeper hue of pink and a more vigorous growth habit than the Meijidiro variety.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5958 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.