US Plant Patent PP6818
Meitifran
Rose plant -- Meitifran variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 19, 2008. 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
- PP6818
- Filed
- January 19, 1988
- Granted
- May 30, 1989
- Expires
- January 19, 2008
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of rose plant of the Miniature Class is provided which forms in abundance highly attractive bicolored very double blossoms. The blossoms are white in coloration and bear bengal rose edges. The plant has glossy foliage, reflowers well, and forms blossoms having an umbrella configuration when fully open. The central petals tend to be tapered and small. The new variety is particularly well suited for use as attractive ornamentation when grown as a flowering pot plant either indoors or outdoors.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
It is claimed: 1. A new and distinct variety of Miniature rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms in abundance on a continuous basis attractive very double bicolored blossoms which are white with bengal rose edges, have small central petals, and assume an umbrella configuration when fully open, (b) exhibits a bushy growth habit, and (c) forms glossy foliage; substantially as herein shown and described, together with the parts thereof.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6818 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.