US Plant Patent PP6557
Crimson Pixie
Lily plant named `Crimson Pixie`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 18, 2007. 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
- PP6557
- Filed
- May 18, 1987
- Granted
- January 24, 1989
- Expires
- May 18, 2007
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant having large clusters of flowers of excellent form and particularly characterized by their vivid red to red-orange coloration, broad tepals, and lack of spots. The plant is of short stature with moderately long and full leaves, and its upright flower orientation makes it especially suitable as a pot plant variety. The color pattern and silhouette of this new plant are completely new in the upright Asiatic divisions of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. This new plant is highly resistant to disease and shows high tolerance of virus, it is an excellent garden plant with blooms having long persistence, and its bulbs may be precooled and forced through the year for pot plant production.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. The new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant and parts thereof substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its completely unspotted, broad tepalled, red to red-orange colored flowers, by its short stems, its longer and abundantly leaved foliage, and its upright flowering silhouette; and by the excellence of its flower form and versatility both as a garden plant and as a pot plant variety.
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