US Plant Patent PP5963
Darling
Lily plant named Darling
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired August 30, 2005. 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
- PP5963
- Filed
- August 30, 1985
- Granted
- April 28, 1987
- Expires
- August 30, 2005
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new and distinct clonal lily cultivar of the Oriental hybrid type, particularly suited for pot culture and distinguished by its short stature, its relatively large, bowl-shaped flowers of rich magenta-rose coloration, the deep rose-pink bud coloration before the flower opens, its deep green and horizontal leaves, and its long persistence both as a forced pot plant and as a field or garden grown plant.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinct variety of Oriental hybrid lily, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its short stature, its short but broad leaves of dark green color, its outwardly facing, bowl-shaped flowers of very large size and of a magenta-rose coloration, and its reliable forcing performance as a pot plant cultivar.
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