US Plant Patent PP5959
Zephyr
Asiatic lily named Zephyr
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
- PP5959
- Filed
- March 11, 1985
- Granted
- April 28, 1987
- Expires
- March 11, 2005
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid Asiatic lily having flowers of excellent form and large size characterized by a clear medium pink color tone, which is fully unique in the upright Asiatic division of lilies, the flowers being borne in large, compact racemes comprising six to twelve flowers on a single stem. Also, this new plant is highly resistant to disease showing high tolerance to virus and is an excellent garden plant with bulbs that may be precooled and forced 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 distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its unique clear medium pink color tone and the excellence of its flower form and substance, its versatility both as a garden plant and as a plant produced from precooled bulbs forced for cut-flower production, and its high resistance to disease and tolerance to virus.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5959 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.