US Plant Patent PP5952
Impact
Asiatic lily named Impact
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
- PP5952
- 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 having flowers of large size and excellent form particularly characterized by their unusual combination of rich golden orange color brushmarked with deep magenta-purple presenting an intense and unusual color pattern that is new in the upright Asiatic division of lilies, the flowers being borne on a single stem in a large and compact raceme. This plant is highly resistant to disease, shows high tolerance to virus, and is an excellent garden plant with blooms having long persistence both on the plant and as cut-flowers. Also, the bulbs of this new plant may be precooled 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, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the excellence of its flower form and substance and in particular by its unusual and dramatic color pattern of golden orange flowers, each tepal of which is marked with a very large and intensely colored deep magenta-purple brushmark; and by its vigorous growth and propagation characteristics with versatility as both a garden plant and a plant grown from precooled bulbs for cut-flower production.
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