Lily plant: Lilium `Picasso`

Abstract

A new variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant bearing large clusters of medium-sized flowers of excellent form, unusual color, and long persistence, both on the plant and as cut flowers. The plant is characterized by rapid natural propagation under field conditions as well as by vigorous and healthy growth when forced under glass. The buds are brilliant orange. The flowers are brilliant orange, unspotted but characterized by the presence of distinctive oxblood red "brush marks".

I claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinctive variety of Asiatic hybrid lily plant substantially as shown and described, characterized by its rapid natural propagation under field conditions, by its vigorous and healthy growth when forced under glass, by the brilliant orange color of its buds, and by its brilliant orange flowers, unspotted but characterized by the presence of distinctive oxblood red "brush marks".