US Plant Patent PP6574

Hornpipe

Lily plant named `Hornpipe`

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: PP6574
Filed: June 19, 1987
Granted: January 31, 1989
Expires: June 19, 2007

Abstract

A new variety of hybrid lily plant particularly characterized by the vivid golden orange coloration of its flowers which have broad tepals with fluted margins and a complete lack of spotting, the flowers being of excellent form, large size and borne in large clusters with an upright orientation on straight, stately stems. The new plant is highly resistant to disease and shows high tolerance of virus; it is an excellent garden plant and the bulbs may be precooled and forced throughout the year for cut flower 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 lily plant and parts thereof, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized in particular by its unspotted, broad tepalled, rich golden-orange flowers with fluted tepal margins; and by the excellence of its flower form and its versatility both as a garden plant and as a cut flower variety well suited to forcing into flower out-of-season.

Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6574 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.