US Plant Patent PP7219
Etchings
Lilium "Etchings"
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 16, 2008. 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
- PP7219
- Filed
- December 16, 1988
- Granted
- April 10, 1990
- Expires
- December 16, 2008
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant bears large clusters of flowers of excellent form and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. The flowers of the new plant are particularly characterized by their unusually large and broad-tepalled form, their light cream to white coloring, and by their unusual spotting pattern which consists of several short, narrow "brush-marks" extending from the nectaries. This combination is completely new in the upright Asiatic hybrid lilies. The plant is resistant to disease and shows tolerance of virus. The clone 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 high resistance to disease; its tolerance of virus; its vigorous growth and rapid natural propagation; the excellence of its flower form; and in particular by its exceptionally large and broad-tepalled flowers of pale cream to pure white enriched by delicate "etched" spotting at the tepal base, a color pattern and form unique among Asiatic hydrid lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP7219 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.