US Plant Patent PP5201
Pink Sensation
Lily named Pink Sensation
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
- PP5201
- Filed
- September 23, 1982
- Granted
- March 6, 1984
- Expires
- September 23, 2002
- Assignee
- SUN VALLEY BULB FARMS INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of lily plant of the Parkmanni type Oriental Hybrid, particularly distinguished by its large, generally pink outwardly facing flowers with white edged, recurved petals each having a dark, more red mid-rib extending from the base almost to the tip. The flowers on this plant are borne in a raceme arrangement on tall, strong stems and long, outwardly projecting pedicels, usually with one bud or flower on each pedicel. This plant also has dark green and relatively disease-resistant foliage as observed where lily diseases do occur.
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, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its large generally pink outwardly facing flowers having white edged recurved petals moderately covered with dark maroon spots, the flowers being borne on long, strong outwardly and upwardly projecting pedicels and long lasting whether on the plant or as cut flowers and the foliage is dark green.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5201 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.