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US Plant Patent PP7357

Colonel Scarborough

Daylily plant named `Colonel Scarborough`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired August 8, 2009. 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
PP7357
Filed
August 8, 1989
Granted
October 16, 1990
Expires
August 8, 2009

Abstract

A new daylily plant having a distal leaf blade area of generally a yellow-green, olive-green and/or yellowish-green hue; the abaxial side having a distal blade area with an inconspicuously mottled, splotched basic field usually dominated by a yellow-green, olive-green and/or yellowish-green hue; spots and splotches generally lighter than that of the basic field but dominated by a yellow-green hue. Inflorescence shade is generally green, yellowish-green, olive-green and/or yellow-green hue; bracts being generally yellow-green hue and lighter in the basal and marginal areas. Branches of the corymb are dominated by a yellowish-green and/or yellow-green hue. The flower is very fragrant. Free portions of the petals are crispate-undulate in a narrow marginal band in the petal distal area; the distal area a basic field that is interrupted on the adaxial side, by a narrow axially extending stripe. Petal basal medial field and marginal areas, and basic field of the distal area, generally a greenish-yellow hue while the stripe is usually less intense than that of the basic field and dominated by a greenish-yellow, yellow-green and/or yellow hue; the basal area generally a greenish-yellow and/or yellow-green hue and usually lighter and less intense than in the medial field of the basal area. Specimens exhibit winter hardiness and heat resistance in Central Florida.

Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.

I claim: 1. The new plant variety of the Lily family substantially as shown and described herein.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7357 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.