Botanical Name: Ficus elastica
Common Name: Rubber Plant, India Rubber Plant
Type of Plant: dicot: tree
Character evergreen
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape a vigorously growing, upright, mostly single-trunked plant, with ascending and spreading branches forming a potentially very large canopy
Height 20-40'
Spread 3/4 to equal
Growth Rate rapid
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full or partial sun preferred; can tolerate shade
Soil thrives in most except alkaline desert soils
Hardiness some frost (zones 19-24); grows best near the coast
 
Morphology:
Leaves pinnate, alternate, oval-elliptic or oblong; 8-12" long, bright green, with small aristate apex; leaves leathery and very glossy
Flowers inconspicuous, green, in pairs along leaf axis
Fruit a small synconium: oval, 1/2" wide, green-yellow when ripe
 
Propagation:
seed or semihardwood cuttings
 
Usage:
a potentially very large shade tree, valued for the large glossy tropical-effect foliage; has extremely aggressive, shallow root system; unpruned may become very bushy in form
 
Landscape Care:
Watering regular to heavy watering is preferred
Fertilizing little needed after established
Pruning head high and develop widespreading scaffold structure
Pests/Diseases relatively free
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: India
Family: Moraceae

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