US Plant Patent PP6669
Charade
Rose plant seedling named Charade
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 15, 2007. 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
- PP6669
- Filed
- June 15, 1987
- Granted
- March 14, 1989
- Expires
- June 15, 2007
Abstract
A new floribunda rose variety distinguished by its abundant and continuous production of well-formed flowers of relatively small size and a bright cardinal red color which remains unchanged for the life of the fully opened bloom and which persists as a cut flower for up to ten days under normal conditions of vase keeping; this new plant is also distinguished by its free and vigorous growth habit and by its very high wintertime productivity during greenhouse culture.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinctive red rose plant and parts thereof, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the overall cardinal red flower coloration, its vigorous growth habit, and its free and continuous blooming in greenhouse culture.
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