US Plant Patent PP6476
Pink Pixie
Lily named Pink Pixie
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired March 9, 2007. 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
- PP6476
- Filed
- March 9, 1987
- Granted
- December 20, 1988
- Expires
- March 9, 2007
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant of short stature, about eighteen inches, bearing large clusters of flowers particularly characterized by their deep pink, cream-centered coloration borne upright in a compact raceme arrangement and comprising from five to nine buds. The short stature of this plant, its moderately long and full leaves, and its medium sized, upright flowers make it especially suitable as a pot plant variety. The color pattern and silhouette of this new plant are completely new in the upright Asiatic divisions of lilies suited to forcing for mass commercial cultivation. The plant is highly resistant to disease and shows high tolerance of virus, which makes it an excellent garden plant; and the bulbs may be precooled and forced throughout the year for pot plant production.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily and parts thereof, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by the deep pink principal coloration of the tepals with a cream-colored throat portion in the center of the flower, and by its short, abundantly leaved silhouette.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6476 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.