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US Plant Patent PP12920

Delsporg

Spray rose plant named ‘Delsporg’

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired June 6, 2020. 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.

Figure 4 of US plant patent PP12920, the photograph of Delsporg printed in the patent.
Figure 4 from US Plant Patent PP12920, reproduced as printed. Photographs in a plant patent are taken by the applicant. Reproduction of the patent document is permitted; the image is shown whole and uncropped for that reason.

The record

Patent number
PP12920
Filed
June 6, 2000
Granted
September 3, 2002
Expires
June 6, 2020
Assignee
SOCIETE ANONY
Inventor
DELBARD GUY

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of Rosa hybrida Spray rose plant is provided which abundantly forms clusters of attractive double flowers on a substantially continuous basis that are bicolored orange and pinkish-white. The plant is well suited for cut flower production under greenhouse growing conditions. The flowers are long lasting. The plant exhibits an upright to bushy growth habit, forms vigorous vegetation, and is well suited for greenhouse forcing for commercial rose production. Additionally, the plant has proven to be resistant to common rose diseases when grown under greenhouse growing conditions.

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 Spray rose plant characterized by the following combination of characteristics: (a) from a physical point of view forms medium green mature wood, assumes an upright to bushy growth habit, and forms attractive long-lasting bicolored clusters of orange and pinkish-white double flowers, and (b) from the biological point of view forms vigorous vegetation, produce flowers in abundance, exhibits the ability readily to be forced, and is resistant to diseases when grown under greenhouse growing conditions; substantially as herein shown and described.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP12920 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.