US Plant Patent PP4868
Meirilocra
Rose plant -- Meirilocra variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 26, 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
- PP4868
- Filed
- September 26, 1980
- Granted
- July 20, 1982
- Expires
- September 26, 2000
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND MARIE L
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which has attractive double flowers, few prickles, and a vigorous erect growth habit. The petals are buttercup yellow on the inside and tangarine orange on the outside and have a Chinese yellow unguis on the upper surface. The seed parent of the new variety was an unnamed variety and the pollen parent was of the MEILIMONA variety (U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,013).
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 characterized by the fact that: from the physical point of view the plant with bronze green adult wood is erect, forms double flowers having consistent petals which are buttercup yellow on the inside and tangerine orange on the outside with a Chinese yellow unguis on the upper surface, and bears few prickles; and from the biological point of view the plant has vigorous vegetation, is highly susceptible to forcing, is not particularly susceptible to cryptogamic diseases, and forms flowers which last normally when cut having petals which drop off cleanly; substantially as shown and described.
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