US Plant Patent PP4933
Utopia
Lily plant: Lilium `Utopia`
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
- PP4933
- Filed
- April 29, 1981
- Granted
- November 9, 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 rapid and natural propagation under field conditions and vigorous and healthy growth when forced under glass. It is further characterized by its regular and attractive inflorescence, the brilliant yellow color of its buds, the large size of its flowers, the great width and thickness of its tepals, the inconspicuous character of its tepal spotting, and the brilliant lemon yellow color of its flowers.
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 regular and attractive inflorescence; the brilliant lemon yellow color of its buds; the large size of its flowers; the great width and thickness of its tepals; the inconspicuous character of its tepal spotting; the brilliant lemon yellow color of its flowers; and the long life of its flowers.
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