US Plant Patent PP5979
Pollyanna
Asiatic lily named Pollyanna
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
- PP5979
- Filed
- March 11, 1985
- Granted
- May 12, 1987
- Expires
- March 11, 2005
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily having large sized flowers of excellent form borne on a single stem in a compact raceme and particularly characterized by their unusual combination of yellow and gold color tones and by their widely spaced maculation, which extends across the base of the tepals, particularly the petals, from each side of the end portion of the nectary, providing a color pattern that is new in the upright Asiatic division of lilies. The flowers have a long persistence both on the plant and as cut-flowers and the plant itself is an excellent garden plant highly resistant to disease and showing high tolerance to virus. Its bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut-flower production and its flowers are produced in midseason, inbetween the flowering times of its siblings of similar appearance, so that it extends 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 distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its unique midseason time of flowering, and in particular, its unique yellow and gold flower color pattern and its heavy maculation; its vigorous growth and propagation character; and its 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 PP5979 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.