US Plant Patent PP6326
Snowcap
Lily plant named `Snowcap`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired October 24, 2006. 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
- PP6326
- Filed
- October 24, 1986
- Granted
- October 11, 1988
- Expires
- October 24, 2006
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- MCRAE EDWARD A
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of flowers of excellent form and long persistence both on the plant and as cut flowers, the flowers being particularly distinguished by their light cream to white coloring and an unusual spotting pattern characterized by a small ring of tiny magenta spots; this combination being completely new in the upright Asiatic division of lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. This plant is an excellent garden plant, highly resistant to disease and showing high tolerance of virus. The bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut flower production and the clone is vigorous and is a good grower and propagator.
Show the legal claimThe single numbered claim as granted — the legal text that defines what this patent covers.
I claim: 1. A new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily, substantially as herein shown and described, particularly characterized by its excellence of flower form and its large, broadly tepalled flowers of soft cream to pure white coloration, enriched by a ring of small spots in the center of the flower and by a narrow pencil mark edging along the basal tepal margins; its vigorous growth and rapid natural propagation and its versatility both as a garden plant and as a cut flower producer from precooled bulbs forced under glass out of season.
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