US Plant Patent PP7274
Lilium Antarctica
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 10, 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
- PP7274
- Filed
- May 10, 1989
- Granted
- July 17, 1990
- Expires
- May 10, 2009
No cultivar name of record
This patent does not name the plant. Through the 1980s and early 1990s that was still common: naming every new cultivar only became standard practice as plants began to be marketed under brand names. The grant identifies this one by its number and by a written description instead.
Nothing here is missing from our records: the patent itself states no name. Where one exists we show it, and we do not invent one.
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of flowers of excellent form and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. The up-facing flowers of the new plant are particularly characterized by their truly white flowers with a slight flush of green extending from the nectaries and by their narrow ring of tiny deep magenta spots in the center of the flower. This combination is completely new in the upright Asiatic divisions of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. The plant is highly resistant to disease and shows high tolerance of virus. The plant also is an excellent garden plant. The bulbs may be pre-cooled and forced for cut-flower production. The new variety is vigorous and is a good grower and propagator.
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 truly white upfacing flowers with a slight flush of green extending from the nectaries and narrow ring of deep magenta spots in the center of the flower.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7274 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.