Rubber Plant

Rubber Plant Care
Botanical Name: Ficus elastica
Rubber Plant is a bold evergreen that gets its name from the sticky sap that dries into a low-quality rubber.

Hi, Harrison, I am going to start with the rubber plant, cuz thats the easy one...I assume that you have a Ficus elastica, because it is the most commonly called rubber plant.
Rubber plants like bright light, but never hot sun.

Rubber Plant
Prepared by Karen Russ, HGIC Horticulture Specialist, and Bob Polomski, Extension Consumer Horticulturist, Clemson University. (New 03/99.)
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Baby Rubber Plant Variegata (Peperomia obtusifolia)
These tropical plants generally have thick stems and fleshy, variegated leaves. Flowers are yellow or brown cone-shapes spikes.
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Rubber Plant - Ficus elastica
Apr 29th
Posted by Rupert Foxton-Smythe in Foliage Houseplants ...

India rubber plant
Ficus elastica
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Rubber Plant
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Rubber plantation, Cameroon (Image: Andrew McRobb, RBG Kew)
Species Information ...

Baby Rubber Plant, stiff and upright, elliptic, leathery, dull green leaves.
Peperomia pereskiifolia
Peperomia rotundifolia ...

Ficus elastica - Rubber Plant, Rubber Tree
FICUS INSECTS
FICUS DISEASES ...

Ficus elastica, the rubber plant.
Ficus benjamina, weeping fig.
Ficus benjamina 'Starlight', weeping fig.

Rubber Plant [English]: Ficus elastica
Rubber Plant [English]: Jatropha dioica
Rubber Plant [English]: Ficus elastica 'Honduras'
Rubber Rabbit-Brush [English]: Ericameria nauseosa
Rubber Rabbitbrush [English]: Ericameria nauseosa ...

Repot every 2-3 years, but like the rubber plant, banyan is best kept a little on the pot-bound side. The shoot tips can be pinched back to promote branching.

How could he interpret a crumb rubber planting medium that kills the plants as in any way "a nice property" for the product? Check out how much funding scattered throughout the University of California system comes just from Goodyear Tire & Rubber.

Ficus elastica (Rubber Plant)
Ficus lyrata (Fiddle Leaf Ficus)
Ficus macrophylla (Moreton Bay Fig)
Ficus palmeri (Rock Fig)
Ficus pandurata
Ficus petiolaris (Texcalamate, Lava Fig)
Ficus pumila (Creeping Ficus) ...

These suspension bridges are handmade from the aerial roots of living banyan fig trees, such as the rubber plant.

Assam rubber, India rubber fig, Indian rubber plant, Indian rubber tree, Indian rubberplant, Indian rubbertree, rubber plant, rubber tree, rubberplant
Family
Moraceae ...

Look for scales on fern, cactus, ivy, palm, rubber plants (Ficus), citrus, camellia, begonia, orchid and croton.
To avoid scale insects, give all new plants a good cleaning and remove any suspicious-looking objects.

- Rubber plant (Ficus elastica)
- 'Alii' ficus (Ficus maclellandii 'Alii')
- English ivy (Hedera helix)
- Boston fern (Nephrolepis exaltata 'Bostoniensis')
- Miniature date palm (Phoenix roebelenii)
- Lady palm (Rhapis excelsa) ...

Rubber Plant (Ficus elastica)
Ruby Dumpling (Mammillaria polythele)
Ruby Glow Sedum (Sedum 'Ruby Glow')
Ruby Horse Chestnut (Aesculus x carnea 'Briotii')
Rudbeckia (Echinacea purpurea 'Alba')
Rudbeckia (Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus') ...

Cogongrass does not tolerate dense shade. In Asian rubber plantations, cogongrass dies back upon canopy formation. However, reports of invasion into old growth forests in Florida suggest that a more shade-tolerant ecotype has developed.

Plants commonly air layered include rubber plants, dracaenas, scheffleras and figs.

I was recently astounded to find this Scindapsus - Devil's Ivy - (image) happily dripping from a tree to a length of 20 metres in a Northern Thailand forest - not to mention the humble Rubber plant - Ficus elastica - growing as a magnificent 30 ...

Ficus pumila. Creeping Fig. Also known as Climbing Fig and Creeping rubber plant. Native of eastern Asia. Not edible.

In Malaysia and Indonesia, the trees provide shade and planted as "nurse trees" in coffee, clove and rubber plantations.
Although the raw seeds are toxic, when cooked they are edible: are roasted, shelled and then eaten with rice in Java, Indonesia.

Impatiens A great shade lover with glossy leaves and showy flowers.
Ivy
Paper Whites
Paradise Palms or Parlor Palms There are many other types.
Philodendrons
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Poinsettia
Rubber Plants
Spider Plants ...

Its wood, fiber, and latex are also variously utilized locally. The important fig genus includes fruit trees, ornamentals (e.g., the rubber plant), and several species renowned in the religion and legends of India (e.g., the banyan and the bo tree).

See also: Rubber, Green, Ficus, Evergreen, Fig