Rubber trees, or Ficus elastica, are a pretty ubiquitous houseplant ... During the spring and summer, when the plant is actively growing, fertilize every two to four weeks. Bibb says a balanced ...

They do best somewhere with at least 50 inches of annual rainfall and no frost. Because they have similar growing conditions, rubber trees are often grown alongside cocoa and coffee plants. Rubber ...

“Where’s it going to come from? Not the Hevea rubber tree. We’d better be growing it right here on American farmland.” ...

Extreme weather, including torrential monsoon downpours and a powerful typhoon, reduced rubber production levels in Asia and ...

There are other options that may meet most of your preferences, including native trees such as cottonwood, basswood, river ...

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For more than 30 years Babu Joseph has been tending rubber trees on his small farm in the southern Indian state of Kerala. Kerala used to be home to thousands of producers like him, who made a ...

ONE of the first rubber trees planted in Malaysia is now over a century old. It continues to thrive in the heart of Seremban, drawing tourists to Negri Sembilan. Planted in 1877 at the Seremban ...