US Plant Patent PP5046
Meirandival
Rose plant--Meirandival variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 3, 2000. 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
- PP5046
- Filed
- March 17, 1980
- Granted
- May 3, 1983
- Expires
- May 3, 2000
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND MARIE L
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which has double bicolored flowers and vigorous vegetation. The petals are yellowish-white in color suffused with geranium lacquer on the edges. The new variety is a sport of the Meibiranda variety which is described in U.S. Pat. Ser. No. 76,311, filed Sept. 17, 1979.
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, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by the fact that: from the physical point of view the plant with bronze green adult wood is erect, forms double flowers which are yellowish-white in color suffused with geranium lacquer on the edges, and forms petals which bear a yellow unguis on both surfaces; and from the biological point of view the plant has 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 PP5046 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.