Variegated Types Of Rubber Plants

Native to india and eastern asia the plant can become massive reaching a height of 100 feet.

Variegated types of rubber plants. The variegated cultivars have dark green leaves with splotches of other colors such. Place a layer of small 1 inch rocks in the bottom to aid in drainage. The container for your rubber tree should be large enough to grow a 4 foot tall tree. Pink painted leaves with white and green these babies are beautiful.

Few indoor plants are as easy to grow as rubber trees ficus elastica. If you re tired of coddling the notoriously fickle fiddle leaf fig or weary of picking up dropped leaves from your weeping fig every day try a rubber plant. Introducing the variegated rubber tree plant level. They re fast growers with the right light conditions and can last 15 years or more with proper care.

From the moraceae plant family the rubber tree gets its name from its thick shiny. 15 50 winner of the most stunning variegation awarded by us variegated rubber tree. Make sure there are drainage holes in the bottom otherwise you risk root rot. The rubber plant is all about.

The rubber plant ficus elastica is a popular ornamental plant from the ficus genus. How it looks and displaying. And a selection of variegated types. A sister to ficus elastica ficus tineke is basically an impressionist rubber tree.

The most common variegated type is pictured. Rubber plant elastica ficus and its many varieties handle neglect much better than the rubber plants cousin ficus benjamina. Variegated rubber houseplant problems. 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.

But indoors a rubber tree typically tops out at 6 to 10 feet tall. The rubber trees popularity was probably at its highest from the song by frank sinatra high hopes. For the indoor grower looking for a tree type plant species with attractive foliage which can grow from 1ft to over 8ft tall this is an excellent choice.