US Plant Patent PP34553
Vanilla Vixen
Shrub rose plant named ‘Vanilla Vixen’
UNDER PATENT
Still under patent. Protection ends September 24, 2041.
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
- PP34553
- Filed
- September 24, 2021
- Granted
- September 13, 2022
- Expires
- September 24, 2041
- Assignee
- SHOUP GEORGE MICHAEL
- Inventor
- SHOUP GEORGE MICHAEL
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of shrub rose plant, herein referred to by its cultivar name, ‘Vanilla Vixen’, is provided which abundantly, substantially, and continuously forms yellow colored cupped rosette blooms. The new variety exhibits a unique vanilla fragrance, which is unusual for a rose. The growth habit is short, rounded and bushy. The foliage is smooth, with a slightly glossy finish. The plant propagates from cuttings easily, and uniformly. The new variety is well suited to growing as a container rose, pot rose, and as a source of attractive ornamentation and fragrance 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 named ‘Vanilla Vixen’ characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) abundantly, substantially, and continuously forms yellow colored cupped rosette blooms, (b) exhibits a short, bushy, and round growth habit, (c) exhibits blooms with an unusual vanilla fragrance, (d) exhibits a high bloom to foliage ratio when blossoming, (e) forms disease resistant foliage with a smooth and slightly glossy finish, and (f) is well suited for growing as container rose, pot rose, and as a source of attractive ornamentation and fragrance in the landscape, substantially as illustrated and described herein.
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