US Plant Patent PP9133
Memphis
Lilium `Memphis`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 28, 2014. 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
- PP9133
- Filed
- September 28, 1994
- Granted
- May 9, 1995
- Expires
- September 28, 2014
- Inventor
- MAK JOHAN A
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant bearing 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 deep pink pink coloration shading into a wide white area surrounding a small yellow ray extending from the nectary furrows. This combination is completely new in the Oriental hybrid divisions of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. The variety is highly resistant to fusarium disease and shows tolerance of virus. The bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut-flower production. 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 Oriental 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, size, and substance; its versatility both as a garden plant and as a cut-flower producer from pre-cooled bulbs forced under glass out of season; and in particular by its unique upright to semi-upright flowers with deep pink coloration shading into a wide white center bording a short, narrow yellow ray along the midrib, accented with noticeable magneta rose papillae on the basal half of each tepal, a combination unique among Oriental hybrid lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation.
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