US Plant Patent PP5006
Lilium Inferno
Lily plant: Lilium Inferno
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 27, 2000. 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
- PP5006
- Filed
- October 27, 1980
- Granted
- March 22, 1983
- Expires
- October 27, 2000
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of medium-sized flowers of excellent form, unusual color, and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. The plant is characterized by rapid natural propagation under field conditions, vigorous and healthy growth when forced under glass, unusually rapid growth to its flowering stage when forced under glass, high resistance to disease and virus, and in particular by the brilliant orange color of its flower with virtually no spots.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant substantially as herein shown and described characterized by its rapid natural propagation under field conditions, its vigorous and healthy growth when forced under glass, its unusually rapid growth to its flowering stage when forced under glass, its resistance to disease and virus, and the brilliant orange color of its flowers, with virtually no spots.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP5006 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.