US Plant Patent PP8775
Orange Flash
Lily plant lilium `Orange Flash`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 30, 2013. 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
- PP8775
- Filed
- July 30, 1993
- Granted
- June 7, 1994
- Expires
- July 30, 2013
- Assignee
- MT HOOD LILIES INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE JUDITH F
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant bearing large upright-facing flowers of excellent form and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut-flowers. The flowers of the new hybrid are particularly characterized by their large size and substance and by their unusual orange flowers with a large white area in the center of each tepal. This combination is completely new in the Asiatic hybrid divisions of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. The variety is highly resistant to fusarium disease and shows tolerance of virus. The bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut-flower production. The clone is vigorous and is a good grower and propagator.
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 high resistance to disease; its tolerance of virus; its vigorous growth and rapid natural propagation; the excellence of its flower form, size, and substance; its versatility both as a garden plant and as a cut-flower produced from pre-cooled bulbs forced under glass out of season; and in particular by the unique color pattern of its orange flowers with their broad white area extending along the midrib of each tepal, a combination unique among Asiatic hybrid lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP8775 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.