Ficus elastica - Indian Rubber Plant, Rubber Fig, "rubber tree", "rubber plant"

Ficus elastica, also called the rubber fig, rubber bush, rubber tree, rubber plant, or Indian rubber bush is a species of plant in the fig genus, native to northeast India and southern Indonesia.

In most cases they live very close to the rubber trees themselves.

Today, some remnants of rubber trees can still be found here.

We know that our rubber trees have not been damaged in a major way.

Despite this, rubber trees and coffee bushes showed particular potential.

Before that, it was full of wild vegetation and rubber trees.

The approach had to be made down a cleared lane through the rubber trees.

The Amazon is the only place on earth where rubber trees grow in the wild.

We drove into the parking area beneath some of the rubber trees.

Yeah but it didn't look like a rubber tree.

The park hosts over twenty species of tree including rubber trees.

The town is also the site of the first rubber tree planted in Malaysia.

As a little boy, Roger had to rise up early to tap rubber trees before getting ready for school.

In the last 10 years some rubber trees were replaced by those producing palm oil.

Rubber trees are also grown on the higher areas.

I took a deep breath and walked from the hootch toward the dark rubber trees.

But he was trapped amid the palms and rubber trees.

The town's main activity is the cultivation of oil palms and rubber trees.

Trang was the first city where rubber trees were planted.

Other rain forest had rubber trees, but in Amazonia were by far the best.

Their children play in the shadow of a huge gomero, or rubber tree.

He blushed and turned to stare into the rubber trees as if he'd found something of real interest there.

This was usually done by draining the sap from rubber trees.

A better bet would be a natural latex pillow made from rubber trees, he says.

That's absurd, of course, because anyone knows an ant can't move a rubber tree plant.

There have been attempts at economic conversion, such as the cultivation of rubber trees.

I turned and looked at the rubber plant behind me.

I haven't been out of that office in so long, I'm beginning to talk to the rubber plants.

They have had a bad time this summer over a rubber plant that was their mother's who died last year.

"Now pull out the hat stand and the rubber plant."

During these times, the rubber plant was introduced to Singapore.

"I'm hardly going to put a rubber plant in here with all these electronics."

There's a rubber plant with a green bow in the lobby.

The leaves of the giant rubber plants bounce up and down.

She was waiting in the lobby, half concealed by its one rubber plant.

"Do you know anyone who needs a rubber plant?"

The leaves of a rubber plant on a table behind the chair brushed against my neck.

Then Monty suddenly noticed her rubber plant over in the far corner, by the window.

Being a man of fewer words and little religious conviction, he threw up over the rubber plant.

He looked up and drew his front leg back out of the rubber plant's green plastic pot.

They returned four months later, leaving some areas still rebellious and with news that there were almost no rubber plants left.

At the far side of the room, near a dusty rubber plant, sat the fat man, studying a menu.

For many years after the war, the federal government would continue to operate the styrene-butadiene rubber plant, up until 1955.

The rubber plant operated in the village until 1980.

Q. I have a rubber plant, an old friend with nine lives, which has new growth starting about halfway up the stem.

There is a rubber plant and another one - he doesn't know what it's called but it's his favourite.

He once infected five hundred rubber plants with superconductor bacteria, and most of them died.

He tried to avoid a horn-blowing pickup full of swaying rubber plants.

There is also a synthetic rubber plant in Madan.

But its "needles" are thin, rather droopy leaves, like those on a rubber plant in a Manhattan office.

Outdoors, rubber plants can become 60-foot trees, with multiple trunks that make them look like miniature forests.

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ficus elastica.

A. One of the nice things about the rubber plant, Ficus elastica, is that there are very few "shoulds" involved.

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Ficus elastica (Rubber Plant)

Ficus elastica yields a milky white latex, a chemical compound separate from its sap and carried and stored in different cells.

Ficus elastica - Indian Rubber Plant, Rubber Fig, "rubber tree", "rubber plant"

During his tenure he introduced the rubber plant (Ficus elastica) to Pakistan and received awards and recognition for Crotons and Carnation cultivations.

Ficus elastica is grown around the world as an ornamental plant, outside in frost-free climates from the tropical to the Mediterranean and inside in colder climates as a houseplant.

A documented example of a pollination mutualism breakdown leading to population declines is the Indian Rubber Tree (Ficus elastica) to its pollinator wasp (Pleistodontes clavigar) interaction.

Ficus elastica, also called the rubber fig, rubber bush, rubber tree, rubber plant, or Indian rubber bush is a species of plant in the fig genus, native to northeast India and southern Indonesia.