US Plant Patent PP9953
Ruby Flash
Lilium plant named `Ruby Flash`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 18, 2016. 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
- PP9953
- Filed
- March 18, 1996
- Granted
- July 8, 1997
- Expires
- March 18, 2016
- Inventor
- MAK JOHAN A
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant bearing medium size out-facing flowers of excellent form and long persistence, both on the plant and as pot flowers. The flowers of the new plant are particularly characterized by their pink coloration shading into a reddish band at the midrib, their lightly ruffled margins, their almost flat shape and heavy substance, their out-facing orientation, and the showing of color on almost all of the upper buds. This combination is completely new in the Oriental Hybrid divisions of the lilies suited to pot 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 pot 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 pot-flower producer from pre-cooled bulbs forced under glass out of season; and in particular by its unique out-facing flowers with strong pedicels, its lightly ruffled tepal margins, and its soft pink coloration shading into a reddish midrib, accented with noticeable magenta rose papillae on the basal half of each tepal and its pink coloration of the upper buds at the time the lowermost buds first open, a combination unique among Oriental hybrid lilies suited to pot forcing and to mass commercial cultivation.
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