US Plant Patent PP5950
Bravo
Asiatic lily named Bravo
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 11, 2005. 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
- PP5950
- Filed
- March 11, 1985
- Granted
- April 21, 1987
- Expires
- March 11, 2005
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid Asiatic Lily bearing flowers of large size and excellent form particularly distinguished by their unusual red to red-orange color on the upper side and a deeper colored reverse side and by their large-sized and unusually broad tepals. The color of this flower is unique in the upright Asiatic division of lilies and the flowers are noted for long persistence, both on the plant and as cut-flowers. The new plant is highly resistant to disease, shows high tolerance to virus, making it an excellent garden plant, and has bulbs which may be precooled and forced for cut-flower production.
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 Asiatic hybrid lily plant, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly distinguished by its vibrant red to red-orange coloring and its lack of spots providing a unique color pattern; the plant has vigorous growth and propagation characteristics; excellent flower form and substance; and has versatility both as a garden plant and as a plant produced from precooled bulbs forced for cut-flower production.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5950 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.