The Rubber Tree Plant

If the plant gets less light while leaves are growing the leaves will actually be larger.

The rubber tree plant.

Many people put their rubber trees near a window where the light is filtered through a pair of sheer curtains. Rubber tree plant care sun. A rubber tree plant is also known as a ficus elastica these large trees can grow up to 50 feet 15 m tall. When learning how to care for a rubber tree plant there are a few key things to remember but rubber plant care isn t as difficult as one might think.

Cultivated on plantations in the tropics and subtropics especially in southeast asia and western africa it replaced the rubber plant in the early 20th century as the chief source of natural rubber it has soft wood. If you re new to plant parenting a rubber tree is the plant for you. In its native jungle habitat in india and malaysia the plant can grow up to 100 feet tall. Rubber trees do not require much light but flourish in bright indirect light.

Rubber tree hevea brasiliensis south american tropical tree of the spurge family euphorbiaceae. And a large area of bark. Ficus elastica the rubber fig rubber bush rubber tree rubber plant or indian rubber bush indian rubber tree is a species of plant in the fig genus native to eastern parts of south asia and southeast asia it has become naturalized in sri lanka the west indies and the us state of florida.