US Plant Patent PP6324
Colleen
Lily plant named `Colleen`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 24, 2006. 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
- PP6324
- Filed
- October 24, 1986
- Granted
- October 4, 1988
- Expires
- October 24, 2006
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant particularly characterized by the starry form of its flowers of light cream to white coloring having very delicate spotting, the flowers appearing in large clusters and being of excellent form and long persistence both on the plant and as cut flowers. This plant is highly resistant to disease and shows high tolerance of virus, making it an excellent garden plant and being particularly suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. The bulbs of this plant may be precooled and forced for cut flower production and 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, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its large flowers of "starry" form having a soft cream to pure white color, enriched by delicate spotting at the base portion of the tepals; its vigorous growth habit and rapid natural propagation; and its resistance to disease with high tolerance of virus.
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