US Plant Patent PP4428
Gold Nugget
Lily named Gold Nugget
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 20, 1998. 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
- PP4428
- Filed
- July 20, 1978
- Granted
- June 12, 1979
- Expires
- July 20, 1998
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new variety of lily plant of the chalice-type Asiatic Hybrid particularly distinguished by the gold coloring of its five to six inch diameter flowers which are borne in raceme arrangement on tall strong stems and strong upright pedicels, usually with one bud or flower on each pedicel, and by its habit of forming aerial bulbils in the leaf axils at blooming time.
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 Asiatic Hybrid lily plant substantially as herein shown and described characterized by the color, form and arrangement of its bright yellow flowers, by its profuse production of flower buds which bloom progressively to provide an extended blooming period, and by the long lasting quality of the blooms on the plant and as cut flowers.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4428 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.