Variegated Types Of Rubber Plants

The rubber plant ficus elastica is a popular ornamental plant from the ficus genus.

Variegated types of rubber plants.

And a selection of variegated types. The container for your rubber tree should be large enough to grow a 4 foot tall tree. 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. Rubber plant elastica ficus and its many varieties handle neglect much better than the rubber plants cousin ficus benjamina.

Few indoor plants are as easy to grow as rubber trees ficus elastica. Pink painted leaves with white and green these babies are beautiful. 15 50 winner of the most stunning variegation awarded by us variegated rubber tree. Introducing the variegated rubber tree plant level.

The rubber tree or ficus elastica variegata is native to south asia and southeast asia. From the moraceae plant family the rubber tree gets its name from its thick shiny. Place a layer of small 1 inch rocks in the bottom to aid in drainage. Make sure there are drainage holes in the bottom otherwise you risk root rot.

The variegated rubber plant known as ficus elastica tineke is possibly one of the prettiest plants of this year. 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. But indoors a rubber tree typically tops out at 6 to 10 feet tall. How it looks and displaying.

The rubber trees popularity was probably at its highest from the song by frank sinatra high hopes. Native to india and eastern asia the plant can become massive reaching a height of 100 feet. The rubber plant is all about. However if you do happen to have a suitable place with good light levels for the variegated types look out for ficus ruby which has pink and purple flushes in the leaves doescheri sticks with splashes of different shades of simple greens and yellows but still looks beautiful in the right spot ficus tineke is pretty much the same but more compact.

The most common variegated type is pictured. 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. The variegated cultivars have dark green leaves with splotches of other colors such.