Questions We’re Asked: Rubber Plant Erasers
The Rubber Plant, Ficus elastica, is a popular indoor plant. More accurately known as the Rubber Tree, in its native habitat of Eastern South Asia and Southeast Asia it may reach a mighty 200 feet. Strangely, it has also been called the Rubber Bush or Rubber Fig. But why ‘rubber’ when commercially such is obtained from the Para rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis?