US Plant Patent PP4887
Merci
Lily named Merci
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired December 12, 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
- PP4887
- Filed
- December 12, 1980
- Granted
- September 14, 1982
- Expires
- December 12, 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 flat, acutely-upright, reddish-pink flowers which have white undulating margins and which are borne in raceme arrangement on long, strong stems and strong, upright pedicels, usually with one bud or flower on each pedicel, and by its dark green, glossy and relatively 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 variety of Oriental Hybrid lily plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its medium-large, upwardly-facing flowers borne on strong, stiff and close to vertically upstanding pedicels, and by its generally flat, moderately spotted and reddish-pink appearing petals on which the color fades laterally from a dark red central and longitudinally-extending stripe.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4887 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.