US Plant Patent PP6573
Fire Pixie
Lily plant named `Fire Pixie`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired June 19, 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
- PP6573
- Filed
- June 19, 1987
- Granted
- January 31, 1989
- Expires
- June 19, 2007
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of flowers particularly characterized by their vivid orange to orange-red coloration and their comparatively inconspicuous spots, the flowers being of medium size, excellent form and borne with an upright orientation. The plant itself is of short stature with moderately long and full leaves which, with its upright prolific flower production, makes it especially suitable as a pot plant variety; its color pattern and silhouette being completely new in the upright Asiatic divisions of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. The plant is also highly resistant to disease and shows a high tolerance of virus, making it an excellent garden plant, and its bulbs may be precooled and forced throughout 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 distinct variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant and parts thereof substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its orange to red-orange flowers with their inconspicuous ring of tiny spots encircling the center of the bloom; by its versatility both as a garden plant and as a pot plant variety suited for forcing into flower out-of-season; and by its short stemmed and abundantly leaved, upright-flowering silhouette.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6573 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.