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US Plant Patent PP7942

MORchick

Rose plant/var: MORchick

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired February 1, 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
PP7942
Filed
February 1, 1991
Granted
August 18, 1992
Expires
February 1, 2011

Abstract

This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant of dwarf, compact habit, primarily identified by its very double flowers of medium pink color with occasional white stripes.

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, basically medium pink (with occasional white striped), the bud being pointed in the early opening stage, resembling in form Pink Petticoat (Miniature -- U.S. Plant Pat. No. 4,636) with the open flower being very full (double) and rounded with many (60 or more) petals; and further characterized by a plant of compact, vigorous, 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 foliage, the flowers being borne several together in loose clusters or sprays on short to medium length stems.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7942 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.