US Plant Patent PP6440
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Lilium compass
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 29, 2006. 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
- PP6440
- Filed
- December 29, 1986
- Granted
- December 6, 1988
- Expires
- December 29, 2006
- Assignee
- BISCHOFF TULLEKEN LELIECULTUUR
- Inventor
- SCHENK PETER
Abstract
A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant, particularly distinguished by its very large flowers unusual color and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. It is also characterized by its regular and attractive inflorescence, the greenish/orange color of its buds, the very large flowers, its characteristic tepal spotting and the brilliant orange color of its flowers.
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 rapid natural propagation under field conditions; its vigorous and healthy growth without leaf scorch, when forced under glass; its regular and attractive inflorescence; the greenish orange color of its buds; the very big size of the buds; the very large size of its flowers; the great width of its tepals, the typical character of its tepal spotting; the brilliant orange color of its flowers; and the long life of its flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6440 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.