Rubber tree plants ficus elastica also known as india rubber figs or india rubber trees grow outdoors in u s.
Rubber tree leaves drooping.
The possible reasons for dropping rubber leaves.
With some general rubber tree plant know how and a few common garden materials you can help prevent further leaf loss and reclaim the health of your plant.
Acclimating the plant slowly when you bring it indoors and shining a few plant lights on the rubber tree will help keep the light levels up and keep the rubber plant from losing leaves.
The other plant sits only a couple feet away from it and is doing just fine.
Over and under watering are the.
Here are some possible reasons loss the turgor pressure water pressure between the plasma membrane and cell wall of rubber plants.
Bottom leaves drop as a rubber tree grows older.
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Like other ficus rubber plants grow banyan type aerial roots to age into a multiple trunk tree with roots along the surface of the ground.
On one of them a couple leaves turned yellow and dropped off and now all the leaves are drooping downward but haven t fallen off.
A few rubber tree leaves may fall off the plant with the change from summer to fall when light levels change.
My gma gave me 2 rubber plants last summer and both were doing fine til a few months ago.
There are many reasons for dropping and falling leaves.