US Plant Patent PP5977
Morcheer
Rose plant/var: Morcheer
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 30, 2005. 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
- PP5977
- Filed
- September 30, 1985
- Granted
- May 12, 1987
- Expires
- September 30, 2005
- Inventor
- MOORE RALPH S
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant primarily identified by small very full double medium red flowers of excellent lasting quality.
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, upright, much branched habit, substantially as illustrated and described, characterized by buds and flowers of medium red coloring, the bud and flower resembling in form My Valentine (miniature--U.S. Plant Pat. No. 3,935) but slightly larger size and brighter color, with full open flower being rounded and similar in form to a button Chrysanthemum; and further characterized by a plant of compact, vigorous, well rounded shape, with main stems and shoots of average thorniness, the said plant being easy to propagate from soft wood cuttings, with an abundance of small semi-glossy to matt foliage, the flowers being borne singly or several to the stem in clusters.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5977 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.