US Plant Patent PP4879
Matchless
Lily plant: Lilium `Matchless`
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
- PP4879
- Filed
- October 27, 1980
- Granted
- August 24, 1982
- Expires
- October 27, 2000
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant, characterized by rapid and natural propagation in field cultivation, vigorous growth when forced under glass without excessive leaf scorch or bud abortion, high resistance to disease and high tolerance to virus. The plant has broad leaves and bears large clusters of medium to large size upright flowers of excellent form, long persistence, and characterized in particular by their brilliant orange unspotted color.
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 in field cultivation, by its vigorous growth when forced under glass, by its resistance to disease and virus, by its broad leaves, and in particular by the brilliant orange, unspotted color of its upright flowers.
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