US Plant Patent PP4969
Lilium Golddigger
Lily plant: Lilium Golddigger
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 29, 2001. 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
- PP4969
- Filed
- April 29, 1981
- Granted
- December 28, 1982
- Expires
- April 29, 2001
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of large flowers of excellent form, unusual color, and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. The plant is characterized by an improved capability of being forced into flower under glass, increased resistance to leaf scorch and bud abortion, improved inflorescence, buds of an intense yellow color, and flowers which also are of an intense yellow color and characterized further by the presence of relatively thick, broad, and overlapping tepals lightly spotted with tiny pigmented papillae.
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 improved capability of being forced into flower under glass, increased resistance to leaf scorch and bud abortion when forced into flower under glass, improved inflorescence, buds of intense yellow color, and flowers which are also of an intense yellow color and characterized further by the presence of relatively thick, broad and overlapping tepals lightly spotted with tiny, pigmented papillae.
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