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Lily plant: Lilium `Headlight`

PUBLIC DOMAIN

Patent expired January 3, 1995. This plant is in the public domain — anyone may propagate and sell it.

Twenty years from the filing date would end on January 21, 1997, but this patent ends 749 days earlier — a terminal disclaimer gives term back. A source that calculates twenty years from filing would tell you this plant is still protected when it is already free.

Abstract

A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of medium-sized flowers of excellent form, strong color, and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. The plant is characterized by having dark stems and excellent foliage. The flower form is excellent, the petals being broad and of fine substance. The buds display a rich reddish-orange color prior to opening. The flowers are characterized by a rich golden orange color and conspicuous spotting.

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1. A new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its single stem of dark green color, its abundant lanceolate deep green foliage, the deep reddish orange color of its buds upon first division, and their deep golden orange color upon unfurling, the excellence of its flower form, the exceptional breadth and fine substance of the tepals, the rich golden orange color of the tepals when the flower is in bloom, the resistance of the plant and flower to disease and its tolerance to infection by virus, and the versatility of the plant both as a garden plant and a plant rapidly produced from precooled bulbs forced for cut flowers or pot plants.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4174 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.

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