US Plant Patent PP5964
Gold Medal
Asiatic lily named Gold Medal
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
- PP5964
- 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 bearing compact racemes of flowers of excellent form and large size, and having an intense and unusual color pattern, particularly characterized by the unusual combination of yellow and gold color tones and the very light maculation on each side of the nectaries at the base of the outer tepals, the color pattern being unique in the upright Asiatic division of lilies. The plant is an excellent garden plant, highly resistant to disease and showing high tolerance to virus, and its bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut-flower production, producing flowers early in the Asiatic lily season, thereby extending the cut-flower production season.
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 hybrid Asiatic lily, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its unique yellow and gold flower color pattern and the excellence of its flower form and substance, as well as its versatility both as a garden plant and as a plant produced from precooled bulbs forced for cut flower production.
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