US Plant Patent PP6167
Starshell
Lily plant named Starshell
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired May 8, 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
- PP6167
- Filed
- May 8, 1986
- Granted
- May 3, 1988
- Expires
- May 8, 2006
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new and distinct lily cultivar of the Oriental hybrid type characterized by its very large, somewhat upward facing, oval shaped flowers with an unusual and distinctive color pattern, the midrib of each flower tepal being colored a rich red-purple color which suffuses outwardly through a light pink to a pure white margin, each tepal being copiously marked on each side of the midrib with maculae of red-purple color over the middle 12 cm. of each tepal.
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 Oriental hybrid lily, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its slightly upright and outward facing bowl-shaped flowers of large size, good substance and form, and borne as a raceme with ascending pedicels on a strong stem of medium height.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6167 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.