US Plant Patent PP9251
Meirumour
Shrub rose plant named `Meirumour`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 28, 2014. 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
- PP9251
- Filed
- September 28, 1994
- Granted
- August 22, 1995
- Expires
- September 28, 2014
- Assignee
- CONARD PYLE COMPANY
- Inventor
- MEILLAND ALAIN A
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of shrub rose plant is provided which forms continuously throughout the season attractive simple long-lasting blossoms that are Guardsman Red with a white eye on the upper surface. The blossom petals are white suffused and edged with Carmine Red on the under surface and detach cleanly. The plant possesses a bushy growth habit. The new variety exhibits excellent resistance to Marssonina disease, and is well suited for use as attractive ornamentation in the landscape.
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 shrub rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) forms continuously throughout the season attractive simple blossoms which are Guardsman Red with a white eye on the upper surface and are white suffused and edged with Carmine Red on the under surface, (b) exhibits a bushy growth habit, and (c) exhibits excellent resistance to Marssonina disease; substantially as herein shown and described.
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