US Plant Patent PP6659

Quickstep

Hybrid Asiatic lily named Quickstep

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired July 31, 2007. 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: PP6659
Filed: July 31, 1987
Granted: March 7, 1989
Expires: July 31, 2007

Abstract

A new variety of hybrid lily plant having flowers particularly characterized by their vivid golden orange coloration, large size, broad tepals, and complete lack of spotting. The flowers are borne in large clusters and are of excellent form and long persistence and its color pattern and forcing period are completely new in the upright Asiatic divisions of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial production for the cut flower market.

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

I claim: 1. The new and distinctive Asiatic hybrid lily plant and parts thereof, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its broad tepalled, unspotted, rich golden orange flowers, the excellence of its flower form, its vigorous growth, and its versatility both as a garden plant and as a cut flower variety particularly suited to forcing into flower out-of-season.

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