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US Plant Patent PP7390

Meirolour

Rose plant--Meirolour variety

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 19, 2009. 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
PP7390
Filed
May 19, 1989
Granted
December 11, 1990
Expires
May 19, 2009

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided which forms in abundance attractive fully double blossoms which exhibit a long vase life. The blossoms are currant red on the upper surface and light cardinal red on the lower surface. The plant exhibits an erect growth habit, vigorous vegetation, and is well adapted for cut flower production in a greenhouse. Good resistance to fungal diseases also in 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 Hybrid Tea rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms in abundance attractive long lasting fully double blossoms which are currant red on the upper surface and light cardinal red on the lower surface, (b) exhibits an erect growth habit, (c) forms vigorous vegetation, (d) is well adapted to greenhouse forcing for cut flower production, and (e) exhibits good resistance to cryptogamic diseases; substantially as herein shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7390 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.