US Plant Patent PP6618
Morfire
Rose plant/var.: Morfire
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 31, 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
- PP6618
- Filed
- August 31, 1987
- Granted
- February 21, 1989
- Expires
- August 31, 2007
Abstract
This invention relates to a new and distinct variety of miniature rose plant primarily identified by its very double flowers with the petals being yellow tipped red.
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, basically yellow and edged with red, 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 (65 or more) petals; and further characterized by a plant of compact, vigorous, upright 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 singly or several together in loose clusters or spray on medium length stems.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6618 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.