US Plant Patent PP4604
Star Fire
Lily named Star Fire
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 30, 1999. 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
- PP4604
- Filed
- July 30, 1979
- Granted
- October 28, 1980
- Expires
- July 30, 1999
- Assignee
- SUN VALLEY BULB FARMS INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new lily plant variety of the chalice-type Asiatic hybrid particularly distinguished by the brilliant orange-red coloring of its five to six inch diameter generally cup-shaped flowers which are borne in an umbellate arrangement on short, strong stems and strong, upright pedicels, usually with one or two buds or flowers on each pedicel, and by its short and stocky growth habit with abundant foliage.
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 plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the color, form and arrangement of its brilliant red flowers and by its short and stocky growth habit and abundant foliage.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4604 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.