US Plant Patent PP6175
Tumalo
Lily plant named Tumalo
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
- PP6175
- Filed
- May 8, 1986
- Granted
- May 10, 1988
- Expires
- May 8, 2006
- Assignee
- MELRIDGE INC
- Inventor
- KIRSCH TED T
Abstract
A new and distinct variety of Oriental hybrid lily characterized particularly by its very short stature and its large, outwardly and generally upwardly facing flowers having an unusual overall pattern of a generally red-purple color with a more peach-toned stripe along each tepal midrib, and being copiously marked over a major portion of its area with papillae of a dark spiraea red color, this plant also having a compact and vigorous growth habit with good strength and abundant foliage.
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, particularly characterized by its outfacing pink flowers of large size and by its short stature, the flowers being of good substance and form and distinctively marked with a peach-toned stripe extending along the tepal midribs, and being copiously marked with dark red papillae over a major portion of the tepal length, this plant having abundant foliage of broad leaves of a dark green color and the flowers being carried as a raceme on ascending pedicels.
Read the full patent: US Plant Patent PP6175 in full — the complete specification, every figure, and the file history.