Lily named Crimson Sun

Abstract

A new and distinct variety of chalice-type Asiatic hybrid lily plant particularly distinguished by the red-orange coloring of its medium sized, generally cupped flowers borne raceme and umbellate on short, strong stems and with upright pedicels, each pedicel usually having one or two buds or flowers. This plant also has a short, stocky growth habit with abundant and luxuriant foliage.

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybird lily plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized by the color, form and stacked-head arrangement of its red-orange flowers; by its short and stocky growth habit and its abundant foliage; and by its rapid asexual reproductive rate and its ability for consistently high quality of forcing as a pot plant.