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US Plant Patent PP18860

BENuno

Rose plant named ‘BENuno’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 16, 2026. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on October 31, 2025. This patent earned 289 days of term adjustment for delay at the Patent Office, which is why it runs longer.

Figure 1 of US plant patent PP18860, the photograph of BENuno printed in the patent.
Figure 1 from US Plant Patent PP18860, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP18860
Filed
October 31, 2005
Granted
June 3, 2008
Expires
August 16, 2026
Assignee
NOR EAST MINIATURE ROSES INC
Inventor
BENARDELLA FRANK

Abstract

‘BENuno’ is a new and distinct rose with hybrid tea-type, exhibition form flowers of a unique near-white blend. Flowers are born one to a stem and last well over a week as cut flowers. Fragrance is moderate. The thick foliage has shown very good disease resistance in national, outside testing. ‘BENuno’ is well suited as a garden perennial, a large container plant and for cut flowers.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

1. A new and distinct variety of hardy rose plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by the uniquely colored, near-white blend flowers, having a moderate fragrance and borne primarily singly (one to a stem) on an upright and uniformly branched plant.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP18860 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.