US Plant Patent PP5110
Rose plant
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired January 25, 2002. 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
- PP5110
- Filed
- January 25, 1982
- Granted
- September 27, 1983
- Expires
- January 25, 2002
- Assignee
- SEQUOIA NURSERY
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant, primarily identified by its flowers of unique form and coloring -- the petals being folded (quilled) to a point and the color being a blending of red, yellow and coral.
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 variety of miniature rose plant of hardy, dwarf, bushy, rounded, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers similar in form to Over the Rainbow (miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,472) but slightly larger in size, the color being a blend of red, coral and yellow, the upper side of petals being deeper color than lower side, giving the flower a bi-color effect and (a) the open petals becoming quilled (pointed as in a Hybrid Cactus type Dahlia); (b) each petal having a narrow gold (or yellow) margin, and further characterized by a vigorous, compact plant, usually broader than tall, the said plant being easy to propagate from softwood cuttings, with an abundance of small semi-glossy to matt foliage, the flowers being born singly or several to the stem in loose spray or cluster.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5110 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.