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US Plant Patent PP8019

MORspring

Rose plant named `MORspring`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired May 3, 2011. 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
PP8019
Filed
May 3, 1991
Granted
November 3, 1992
Expires
May 3, 2011

Abstract

This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant, primarily identified by its double flowers with the petals being generally striped red and white and the plant being of vigorous climbing habit.

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

The following is claimed: 1. A new and distinct cultivar of climbing rose plant of the Floribunda class substantially as herein described and illustrated, said plant having a vigorous, upright and much branched habit, having buds and flowers which are variegated or striped in varying patterns of red and white, the bud being pointed in the early opening stage (resembling in form `Little Darling`, U.S. Plant Pat. No. 1,581), the flower being full (double) with many (20-25 or more) petals; and further characterized by the plant having repeat bloom, an abundance of large matte foliage, with main stems and shoots of average thorniness, said plant being easy to propagate from soft wood cuttings or by budding, and said plant bearing flowers in small clustes on medium length stems.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8019 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.