US Plant Patent PP4603
Crimson Sun
Lily named Crimson Sun
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 30, 1999. 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
- PP4603
- Filed
- July 30, 1979
- Granted
- October 28, 1980
- Expires
- July 30, 1999
- Assignee
- SUN VALLEY BULB FARMS INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of chalice-type Asiatic hybrid lily plant particularly distinguished by the red-orange coloring of its medium sized, generally cupped flowers borne raceme and umbellate on short, strong stems and with upright pedicels, each pedicel usually having one or two buds or flowers. This plant also has a short, stocky growth habit with abundant and luxuriant foliage.
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 hybird lily plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the color, form and stacked-head arrangement of its red-orange flowers; by its short and stocky growth habit and its abundant foliage; and by its rapid asexual reproductive rate and its ability for consistently high quality of forcing as a pot plant.
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