US Plant Patent PP5990
Joanna
Asiatic lily named Joanna
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
- PP5990
- Filed
- March 11, 1985
- Granted
- May 19, 1987
- Expires
- March 11, 2005
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily having flowers of excellent form and large size, particularly characterized by an unusual combination of yellow and gold color tones and having a very sparse maculation of rather light spots, a color pattern that is new in the upright Asiatic division of lilies. The flowers also have long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. The plant is highly resistant to disease, shows high tolerance to virus, and is an excellent garden plant. The bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut-flower production, blooming earlier than those of siblings similar in appearance, thereby extending 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 variety of Asiatic lily plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its yellow and gold flower color pattern and its light maculation, which are unique in the Asiatic hybrid lily division of lilies suited for forcing; the plant is also characterized by its vigorous growth and propagation habit, its unique early mid-season time of flowering, and its high resistance to disease and high tolerance to virus.
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