US Plant Patent PP5196
Fresco
Lily named Fresco
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired September 23, 2002. 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
- PP5196
- Filed
- September 23, 1982
- Granted
- February 28, 1984
- Expires
- September 23, 2002
- Assignee
- SUN VALLEY BULB FARMS INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new and distinct Oriental hybrid lily of the Parkmanni type particularly distinguished by its medium sized outwardly facing flowers which have a light pink coloration of both petals and sepals, each of which has a yellow-orange mid-rib, the flowers being borne in a raceme arrangement on long strong stems and stiff outwardly projecting pedicels, there being usually one bud on each pedicel. This plant also has dark glossy green, apparently disease-resistant 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 distinct Oriental hybrid lily cultivar substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its medium pink outwardly facing flowers, the petals of which have a prominent narrow yellow-orange stripe along the mid-rib and numerous maroon spots; and the petal tips are slightly recurved, the flowers are borne on short stiff outwardly projecting pedicels and are long lasting whether on the plant or as a cut flower, and the foliage is dark glossy green and relatively abundant.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5196 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.