US Plant Patent PP4605
Star Duster
Lily plant named Star Duster
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
- PP4605
- 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 distinguished by its short and stocky growth habit and by the brilliant, prominently spotted, orange-red coloring of its medium sized, five to six inch diameter, slightly cupped flowers borne with strong, upright pedicels carried raceme on a short, strong stem; each pedicel having one or two buds or flowers.
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, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the form and color of its bright orange-red and speckled flowers, by its relatively short and stocky growth habit, and by its extremely quick and consistently high quality of forcing for cut flower and pot plant production.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP4605 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.