Species: Ficus. Elastica
(a banyan fig)
"Rubber fig"
House Plant at my house
"Burgundy Rubber Plant"
Indonesia, India
Toxic to skin and eyes, injestion can be fatal
Aerial Roots
pollinator: a fig wasp
Heavy milky latex sap
Makes rubber
The burgandy flowers in the background have nothing to do with this plant.
This plant is in the bathroom and the leaves are green (due to low light) and not burgandy.
I tasted the latex. Seems ok.
Four Plant Cuttings
Four Plant Cuttings
I love this plant because it is so easy to germinate.
Two months ago I took one woody cutting, one recent growth cutting, and two leaf cuttings.
I placed them all in this pot, mist-watered every day, and waited.
As you can see, all four are alive, and the two node cuttings (wood and fresh) are growing and sprouting.
I did not expect the
leaf cuttings to even live, but they did. Theoritically, they should eventually die.
The wood cutting has done the best, sprouting several leaves.