US Plant Patent PP6424
Lily named Coral Pixie
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired February 25, 2007. 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
- PP6424
- Filed
- February 25, 1987
- Granted
- November 29, 1988
- Expires
- February 25, 2007
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
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 of short stature and bearing large clusters of medium sized, upright flowers particularly characterized by their `old rose` gold accented coloration and the small number of tiny spots, the flowers being of excellent form and long persistence. The short stature of this plant and its moderately long, full leaves provide a color pattern and silhouette completely new in the upright Asiatic divisions of lilies making it especially suitable as a pot plant variety well suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. This plant is highly resistant to disease and shows high tolerance of virus, making it an excellent garden plant, and its bulbs may be precooled and forced throughout the year for pot plant production.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily and parts thereof, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its gold accented, `old rose` colored flowers with their dainty ring of tiny spots, the excellence of its flower form, and its versatility both as a garden plant and as a pot plant variety well suited to forcing into flower out-of-season.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6424 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.