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This dark, leafy green beauty will thrive in your home with these pro tips. Rubber trees, or Ficus elastica, are a pretty ubiquitous houseplant nowadays, alongside fiddle leaf figs and monsteras.

Being a tree crop with over 20 years of economic lifespan and 5 metres (upper limit) height, rubber has an entitlement to be a forest plantation. The eligibility comes under Aforestation and ...

Most of its 10,000 inhabitants worked for a giant French rubber plantation, the Societe des Caoutchoucs d’Extreme-Orient, whose trees marched away row upon row, mile after mile, across the low ...

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ONE of the first rubber trees planted in Malaysia is now over a century old. It continues to thrive in the heart of Seremban, ...

Ruins of cities keep turning up in the forests of central America. How have these structures stayed standing for millennia?

Rubber tree plants (Ficus elastica) are reasonably easy-to-grow at home, but getting their watering schedules right is vital to ensure they thrive. In my experience, nothing kills a rubber tree plant ...

KUALA KANGSAR: The first rubber tree planted in Malaysia, estimated to be over 140 years old, is now said to be worth almost RM200,000. Kuala Kangsar Municipal Council (MPKK) secretary Saiful Azli ...

Hiratsuka, Japan – Yokohama Rubber Co. (YRC) has joined a research project to develop a new biomass business model to make use of discarded rubber tree seeds.