Rubber Tree Fruit Edible

Read the pages that follow and your rubber tree plant care will be easy.

Rubber tree fruit edible.

Light sandy medium loamy and heavy clay soils and prefers well drained soil. So when learning how to care for rubber tree houseplants or even outdoors there are a few key things you should know to find success. Fig tree with the scientific name of ficus carica belong to moracee family and contains over 600 different varieties which most of them are wild and ornamental. Acid neutral and basic alkaline soils.

Sycomorus which has mulberry like leaves hard wood and edible fruit. Types of dried figs will be explained in another article in the future. Specific epithet refers to the milky sap that can be used to produce rubber. The common name of ficus elastica rubber fig tree refers to the milky white sap that is tapped from the tree s bark.

The flowers are pollinated by wasps. However it can be eaten though it need to be washed carefully then dried. The natural range of rubber ranges from nepal in the north to indonesia bhutan northeastern india burma and china and malaysia. A time or two in this column i have mentioned my goal of filling my small fruit garden with trees and shrubs that produce edible fruit.

It can grow in semi shade light woodland or no shade. That is those that require minimal pesticides and management. It looks very inedible. The fruit is a hard wooden shell with normally three hard seeds inside.

It is hardy to zone uk 10. Unfortunately many of our traditional tree fruits require way too much effort in the form of pruning and spraying for disease and insect pests. The common rubber tree ficus elastica or rubber plant if grown indoors is a species of fig tree and is totally related to the edible figs that you buy in the grocery or the fig tree in the bible. Growing a rubber tree plant can be frustrating if all its needs are not met.

Ficus racemosa is a deciduous tree growing to 12 m 39ft by 12 m 39ft at a fast rate. These are fake fruits that contain fertile seeds only in areas where the pollinating insect is present. The fruit begins to ripen during spring to summer depending on the temperature in the area. The bo tree or pipal f.

Genus name comes from the latin name for ficus carica the edible fig. The fruit is a small yellow green oval fig 1 centimetre 0 39 in long barely edible. Tree and fruit classification. Another notable ficus species is the sycamore fig f.

Inside the hard seeds is rubbery white flesh which taste awful if eaten raw.