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The large leaves of Ficus elastica (Moraceae), and the red sheath that protects the new leaves, photographed at Anderson Park Botanic Gardens, Townsville, Australia.
Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia.
Ficus elastica Roxb. (variegated hybrid/cultivar). Moraceae. CN: [Malay - Bunoh seteroh], Rubber fig, Rubber bush, Rubber tree, Rubber plant, Indian rubber bush.
Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia.
Ficus elastica Roxb. Moraceae. CN: [Malay - Bunoh seteroh], Rubber fig, Rubber bush, Rubber tree, Rubber plant, Indian rubber bush.
This enormous 19th-century rubber tree sits in front of Café La Biela. Ficus elastica, also called the rubber fig, rubber bush, rubber tree, rubber plant, or Indian rubber bush is a large tree in the banyan group of the fig genus, native to northeast India and southern Indonesia.
In einem streng geheimen Labor zur Erforschung nachhaltiger Energie wurde dieses Chlorophyll bei der Arbeit beobachtet.
Sorry to all my Flickr friends....I will be off line for one week because my iMAC it's broken!
I hope to have the time to shoot some good photos to share...
The boys had a lot of fun climbing in the rubber tree. For plant lovers out there, this is ficus elastica which is a fig tree and is also known as a banyan tree. People in the US and other cooler climates may know these to be houseplants, but this one is about fourty or fifty feet tall.
Cool side note: As with other ficus, this tree requires a specific species of fig wasp to pollinate it. It's a cool example of a symbiotic relationship. Seeing as this plant was likely brought here centuries ago and I don't see a lot of these around the island, I doubt that the fig wasp needed for this tree's reproduction is on the island.
Grand Anse, Grenada
SGU's Grand Anse campus
Ficus elastica, also called the rubber fig, rubber tree, rubber plant, or Indian rubber tree is a species of plant in the fig genus, native to northeast India (Assam), south to Indonesia (Sumatra and Java).
It is a large tree in the banyan group of figs, growing to 30-40 m (rarely up to 60 m) tall, with a stout trunk up to 2 m diameter, with an irregular trunk which develops aerial and buttressing roots to anchor it in the soil and help support heavy branches. It has broad shiny oval leaves 10-35 cm long and 5-15 cm broad; leaf size is largest on young plants (occasionally to 45 cm long), much smaller on old trees (typically 10 cm long). The leaves develop inside a sheath at the apical meristem, which grows larger as the new leaf develops. When it is mature, it unfurls and the sheath drops off the plant. Inside the new leaf, another immature leaf is waiting to develop.
United States Botanic Garden
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Have you ever really wondered
When you looked at an age old tree
How many different changes
It could tell- If it could see?
Was it just a sapling
When the buffalo were free
And the prairie grass grew so tall
It looked like a giant green sea
Was it there to watch the settlers
As there wagons plodded past
Was it almost cut down in its prime
To be a boatmans mast?
perhaps its been a shelter
For young lovers in their teens
Who may have carved their initials
So that the letters still can be seen
Could it tell who built the roadway
That runs along its side
How many birds and squirrels
Has its branches helped to hide
How many glorious sunrises
How many settings suns
If only it could tell us
We might know from whence we come.
Ron Nicely
Ficus elastica. Sao Paulo, SP. Brasil.
Uno de los árboles más comunes en las ciudades de America tropical. Comúnmente se le llama Hule, Arbol del caucho, o Higuera del caucho. No es un árbol originario de América. Fue introducido a Europa en 1815 desde el archipiélago malayo y después traído a America.
Des étais métalliques ont été posés pour supporter le poids des énormes branches, certaines dépassant les 30m de long.
Kebun Raya Bogor, Indonesia
(Bogor Botanical Gardens, Indonesia).
Ficus cf. elastica Roxb. (variegated hybrid/cultivar). Moraceae. CN: [Malay and regional vernacular names - Bunoh seteroh, Karet kebo], Rubber fig, Rubber bush, Rubber tree, Rubber plant, Indian rubber bush.
For the most part, we humans -are- like rubber. But we do get wounded at times.
What's so good about that?
It is good to support another.
It is also good to know that you are being supported.
The world might seem really really huge and you might feel really really small. Comparing those things makes -me- feel really, really small too. I'm over that. I've got bigger fish to fry and a few other problems to solve.
Thank you to those who are supporting me and those who are allowing me to support them.
[photo taken straight out of camera]
This is my rubber tree. I think I got it in early 2008, if I remember correctly. While in Toyama, it was thriving in the dark window I had it in. I brought it to Tochigi and put it on my south-facing deck. Then it rained most of August, and then was super sunny, and it got overwatered (so it lost two leaves) and sunburned (that's why the leaves that remain are yellow and brown instead of deep green). Brought it inside, and rescued it from the mulchy hydroculture pot it had been in. Put it in this clay-bead form of hydroculture. Hopefully it'll thrive again.