US Plant Patent PP6503

Markova

Hybrid Oriental lily named Markova

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired April 15, 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: PP6503
Filed: April 15, 1987
Granted: January 3, 1989
Expires: April 15, 2007

Abstract

A new variety of hybrid Oriental lily plant bearing large, upright to semi-upright flowers particularly characterized by their unspotted, pure white coloration; the large size and substance of the flowers and their orientation being a combination that is completely new in the Oriental hybrid divisions of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. This plant is highly resistant to disease, shows tolerance of virus, is an excellent garden plant, and has bulbs which 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. The new and distinct variety of hybrid Oriental lily plant and parts thereof, substantially as herein shown and described, and particularly characterized by its semi-upright to upright flowers of pure white, unspotted coloration; by the excellence of its flower form, and by its versatility as a garden plant and as a cut flower producer from precooled bulbs forced under glass out-of-season.

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