Rubber plant
Ficus elastica
Also called ficus elastica, rubber fig.
Bright indirect light. Drops its lower leaves if it is moved around or kept wet, and sulks for weeks about either.
What it needs
- Grows to
- 200 cm
- Smallest sensible enclosure
- 60 L, at least 50 cm long
- Temperature
- 16 to 30 °C
- Humidity
- 40 to 70%
- Grown
- in a pot of its own
- How hard
- easy
These are the figures the stocking advice is built on. Make a room and it will tell you whether a rubber plant fits the enclosure you have.