US Plant Patent PP5060
Meirotervi
Rose plant -- Meirotervi variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired November 18, 2001. 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
- PP5060
- Filed
- November 18, 1981
- Granted
- June 14, 1983
- Expires
- November 18, 2001
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND MARIE L
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Hybrid Tea rose plant is provided having double flowers which are of a brilliant luminous red coloration. The new variety resulted from the crossing of the Meidirapo variety and an unnamed seedling, and is particularly suited for growing in a greenhouse to form in abundance highly attractive flowers which when cut are long lasting and hold their color well.
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, substantially as illustrated and described, having (a) a vigorous upright growth habit, (b) the ability to form in abundance double flowers of firm petal substance which are brilliant luminous red in coloration borne on substantially straight stems and which are long lasting and substantially resistant to color change, (c) the ability to form glossy dark green foliage, and (d) the presence of a large number of thorns.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5060 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.