What is a Rubber plant? Tell me the answer.
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Ficus elastica, the rubber fig, rubber bush, rubber tree, rubber plant, or Indian rubber bush, Indian rubber tree, is a species of plant in the fig genus, native to eastern parts of South Asia and southeast Asia. It has become naturalized in Sri Lanka, the West Indies, and the US State of Florida
Scientific name: Ficus elastic
Family: Moraceae
Higher classification: Fig trees
Order: Rosales
Rank: Species
Kingdom: Plantae
Subgenus: F. subg. Urostigma
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an evergreen tree of the fig family, which has large dark green shiny leaves and is widely cultivated as a houseplant. Native to SE Asia, it was formerly grown as a source of rubber.
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