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Q-I have a rubber tree that I`d like to propagate. How can I cut and replant it?A-Tip cuttings from a rubber plant, Ficus elastica, are tricky to root. You will have better luck through air layering.
Q Nine years ago, I got a rubber tree that was just 10 inches tall. Now it stands about 11 feet high, and it towers over my living room. How much can I prune this plant, and when will I see new ...
Most rubber trees are propagated by stem cuttings. When you buy a new rubber tree, you’ll often find a partially buried leaf at the base of the plant where the cutting took place.
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.
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 ...
Plants form new leaves, flowers and roots at the tips of shoots and roots, in specific growth regions known as meristems. These meristems contain stem cells that divide as needed and form new ...