Rubber Plant Genus Species

Others are planted as ornamentals.

Rubber plant genus species.

Both species are edible in their entirety. Erythrospermum were introduced from europe and now propagate as wildflowers. Hevea benthamiana hevea brasiliensis and hevea guianensis. Taraxacum t ə ˈ r æ k s ə k ʊ m is a large genus of flowering plants in the family asteraceae which consists of species commonly known as dandelions the genus is native to eurasia and north america but the two commonplace species worldwide t.

In it s natural habitat it grows over 30 metres tall however the varieties grown indoors are a much more manageable height. In the genus of hevea 11 species exist but only three species within the genus produce usable rubber. Cryptostegia grandiflora commonly known as rubber vine is a woody perennial vine that is native to south west madagascar it is also a significant weed in northern australia sometimes regarded as the worst weed in all of australia. The plants are native primarily to tropical areas of east asia.

Many are tall forest trees that are buttressed by great spreading roots. Of the three species only the rubberwood is grown commercially on plantations for the harvest of rubber and wood. Rubber plants belong in the large genus of ficus which include around 900 different species of trees vines and shrubs and is broken down even further with the vast amount of different cultivars for each of the species. It has also been introduced to most other tropical and subtropical regions by man because of its attractive flowers and the fact that its latex contains.

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. Hevea brasiliensis the pará rubber tree sharinga tree seringueira or most commonly the rubber tree or rubber plant is a flowering plant belonging to the spurge family euphorbiaceae it is the most economically important member of the genus hevea because the milky latex extracted from the tree is the primary source of natural rubber.