US Plant Patent PP4606
Gold Dust
Lily plant named Gold Dust
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired July 30, 1999. 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
- PP4606
- Filed
- July 30, 1979
- Granted
- October 28, 1980
- Expires
- July 30, 1999
- Assignee
- SUN VALLEY BULB FARMS INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant of the chalice type particularly distinguished by its one-quarter to one-half inch wide golden yellow stripe which runs longitudinally down the middle of each of the red-orange petals of its five to six inch diameter flowers, the flowers being borne in raceme arrangement on strong, upright pedicels, usually with one bud or flower on each pedicel, carried on strong stems which grow up to three feet tall, depending upon the age of the bulb.
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 Asiatic hybrid lily plant, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by generally yellow-orange appearing blooms of medium size having golden yellow stripes extending the length of each petal, on each side of a central furrow, over an orange-red background.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4606 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.