US Plant Patent PP5960
Cordelia
Asiatic lily named `Cordelia`
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
- PP5960
- Filed
- March 11, 1985
- Granted
- April 28, 1987
- Expires
- March 11, 2005
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily having flowers of large size, excellent form, and an intense and unusual color pattern comprising an unusual combination of yellow and gold color tones with relatively sparse maculation, this color pattern being new in the upright Asiatic division of lilies. This plant is highly resistant to disease and shows high tolerance to virus and its flowers have long persistence, both on the plant and as cut-flowers, making it an excellent garden plant. Also, the bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut-flower production, the flowers being produced in late mid-season, inbetween the flowering times of its siblings of similar appearance, thereby broadening the season of 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, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its open flower form wherein the generally oblanceolate upper tepals extend midway between the lower tepals with very little overlapping of the tepal margins and with their nectary ends openly spaced apart at the base of the flower.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5960 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.