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rubber plant

English

Ficus elastica (1)

Noun

rubber plant (plural rubber plants)

  1. Ficus elastica, a tropical tree used as a houseplant native to Asia.[1][2]
  2. A tree which can produce latex, a rubber tree, including Hevea brasiliensis.[1]

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  1. 1 2 The Illustrated Oxford Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1998
  2. Botanica. The Illustrated AZ of over 10000 garden plants and how to cultivate them, Könemann, 2004