US Plant Patent PP9954
Villanova
Lily plant `Villanova`
PUBLIC DOMAIN
Patent expired April 24, 2016. 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
- PP9954
- Filed
- April 24, 1996
- Granted
- July 8, 1997
- Expires
- April 24, 2016
- Inventor
- MAK JOHAN A
Abstract
A new variety of hybrid lily plant bearing large upright-facing flowers of excellent form and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. The flowers of the new plant are particularly characterized by their pink coloration shading into a wide solid red band at the midrib, their large size and heavy substance, their "flat-faced" form, created by broad tepals which recurve only at the tips, their upright to semi-upright orientation, the sharply ascending pedicels of the upper flowers, and the long buds. This combination is completely new in the Oriental Hybrid divisions of the lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation. The variety is highly resisant to fusarium disease as well as botrytis. The bulbs may be precooled and forced for cut-flower production. In comparison to the most of other Oriental varieties, the bulbs of this new hybrid lily can be stored in a cooler for a longer time and still produce excellent cut-flower stems when forced into flower out of season. The clone is vigorous and is a good grower and propagator.
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I claim: 1. A new and distinctive variety of Oriental hybrid lily plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by its resistance to disease; its tolerance of virus; its vigorous growth and rapid natural propagation; the excellence of its flower form, size, and substance; its versatility both as a garden plant and as a cut-flower producer from pre-cooled bulbs forced under glass out of season; and in prticular by its unique upright to semi-upright flowers with sharply ascending pedicels, its long and pointed buds, the large flat-faced form of its flowers, which recurve only at the tips, its soft pink coloration shading into a wide solid red band at the midrib, accented with noticeable magenta rose papillae on the basal half of each tepal, a combination unique among Oriental hybrid lilies suited to forcing and to mass commercial cultivation.
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