US Plant Patent PP4880
Escort
Lily named Escort
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 11, 2000. 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
- PP4880
- Filed
- December 11, 1980
- Granted
- August 24, 1982
- Expires
- December 11, 2000
- Assignee
- SUN VALLEY BULB FARMS INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Oriental Hybrid lily plant of the Parkmannis type, particularly distinguished by its large, brilliant, purplish-red, heavily spotted flowers which are borne on short, stiff stems and strong, upwardly-extending pedicels, usually with one bud or flower on each pedicel, and by its very wide, oval, dark green, glossy and relatively disease-resistant foliage. Its short and squatty, compact growth habit makes it an ideal plant for pot culture.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Oriental Hybrid lily plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its very large, brilliantly colored flowers borne on strong, stiff, upwardly-projecting pedicels, by its short and compact pot growth habit, and by its dark green, glossy foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4880 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.