Patents Assigned to Cerro Gordo, Inc.
  • Patent number: PP4035
    Abstract: The new and distinct variety of Dracaena plant substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly by medium long, narrow, sword-shaped, dense spreading leaves, the leaves being compactly grouped and erect, the texture thereof being hard and the distinctive color pattern of its leaves with a marginal red-pink strip widening from base to apex, a less prominent mid-rib pink stripe merging with the marginal stripe at the apex, two green stripes on either side of the mid-rib stripe, widening from base to apex, coloration of all stripes on both sides being substantially the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 5, 1977
    Assignee: Cerro Gordo, Inc.
    Inventor: Hideo Obayashi
  • Patent number: PP4069
    Abstract: A rubber plant exhibiting variegated foliage and resembling the known Ficus elastica Roxb. var. decora tricolor hort., but bearing leaves exhibiting very narrow dark-green borders and light-yellow interiors and being smaller in size. The leaf blades are of an ovate shape with a thick coriaceous texture and with wavy edges. Propagation of the rubber plant by using cuttings is difficult and even impossible, therefore, air layering is employed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 1976
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1977
    Assignee: Cerro Gordo, Inc.
    Inventors: Tokuyasu Ito, Hideo Ikuta