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Rubber tree

Aleyna

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Rubber tree

Took this picture through the fence. You can see the long roots. The trunk of this tree is very large.... estimating 3 or 4 m diameter.



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Amazing !

8 Mar, 2009

 

Aleyna:

This is an incredibly beautiful Rubber Tree with all its aerial roots.

I'm going to posting a photo of a large Ficus elastica 'decora' I took yesterday at the University of San Diego. The Rubber trees in California don't have aerial roots like this one. I should say I've never seen one with aerial roots like this photo here.

9 Mar, 2009

 

Hi Delonix,
I'm glad you liked, I though you would.
Yes, as far as I could see from your pictures, the ficus roots looks different there.
Maybe because this one here have grown wild without a gardener...the aerial roots grown everywhere.
I'll check your photos.
Actually I began from the first pictures you posted, and was there where I found the rubber trees reminded me of this one.

9 Mar, 2009

 

Aleyna:

You must have a lot of rain and very high-humidity for the Rubber Trees to develop aerial-roots like this tree. In Hawaii up in the rain forest they have Rubber Trees that have aerial-roots like this one.

In California they develop some aerial-roots, however, we don't receive any rain during the Summer. Some other species of Ficus do produce a lot of aerial-roots- it just depends on the species.

10 Mar, 2009



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