The rubber tree is a tropical plant from northeast India and Indonesia. It grows over 100 feet tall; it drops a lot of big leaves and branches, and it produces too much shade for most plants to ...

When pruning, prune your rubber tree plants above the leaf node, not under. To avoid rubber plant leaves drooping completely, ...

When rubber plants first establish, they form one main trunk which leaves grow from, which is why many call them rubber trees ...

Even though about 2,000 plants are known to contain natural rubber, it is harvested almost exclusively from rubber trees in Thailand, Indonesia and Malaysia, using a tapping system much like that ...

New prices: A few artificial plants are on sale right now — the Gracie Oaks 28-Inch Faux Lemon Tree is 56 percent off; the West Elm Faux Potted Rubber Tree is 23 percent off; the Williston Forge ...

Rubber trees do well in low light conditions, but they don’t like to be moved around. If disturbed, the plant will drop its leaves. A tropical plant, the rubber fig is also susceptible to cool ...

Rubber plant, Ficus elastica, including its variegated form, is native to India, Burma, Malaysia and similar tropical regions. Rubber plants become tree-like in nature, so the natural tendency is ...

Commercial rubber products come from a different tree species. In its native tropics, this houseplant becomes a large tree, well over 100 feet high. Its natural instinct indoors is to become treelike.

“Many plant species produce some kind of rubber including other plants native to desert regions besides guayule,” says Dr. David Dierig, who manages a 300-acre research farm in Eloy for ...