US Plant Patent PP4463
Fredica
Rose understock--Fredica variety
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 5, 1998. 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
- PP4463
- Filed
- September 5, 1978
- Granted
- October 9, 1979
- Expires
- September 5, 1998
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- GOUJON CLAUDE
Abstract
The invention relates to a new and distinct variety of rose plant which is particularly suited for use as an understock when growing rose plants in a greenhouse. The new variety is substantially thornless in nature, and is a product formed by the crossing of a Rosa indica major seed parent by a thornless male, Rosa multiflora inermis.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of rose plant produced by the crossing of a Rosa indica major seed parent by the thornless male, Rosa multiflora inermis, characterized particularly as to novelty by the unique combination of (a) a substantially thornless nature, (b) a multiflorous inflorescence, (c) white flowers commonly of five petals each, (d) foliage similar to but more ample than that of Rosa indica major, (e) good tolerance to diseases including powdery mildew, and (f) exceptional suitability for use as understock for growing rose plants in a greenhouse.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4463 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.