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US Plant Patent PP4912

meitoflapo

Rose plant--meitoflapo variety

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 19, 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
PP4912
Filed
February 19, 1981
Granted
November 2, 1982
Expires
February 19, 2001
Inventor
MEILLAND MARIE L

Abstract

A new rose plant of the Floribunda Class is provided having attractive double flowers which are china pink on the inside and neyron pink on the outside. Such flowers are formed in abundance and when cut are long lasting. The plant is particularly susceptible to forcing.

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 Floribunda rose plant of vegetative reproduction substantially as illustrated and described characterized by the fact that from the physical point of view, the rose plant with bronze green mature wood has a semi-erect growth habit, double flowers which are china pink on the inside and neyron pink on the outside, and consistent petals which bear a whitish unguis on both surfaces; and from the biological point of view, the rose plant has vigorous vegetation, produces flowers in abundance, exhibits an ability readily to be forced, is not particularly susceptible to diseases, and forms long lasting flowers comprising petals which detach cleanly.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4912 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.