Rubber Tree Fruit Edible

Fig types based on tree and fruit or fig tree classification is our discussion in this article.

Rubber tree fruit edible.

Fig tree with the scientific name of ficus carica belong to moracee family and contains over 600 different varieties which most of them are wild and ornamental. A time or two in this column i have mentioned my goal of filling my small fruit garden with trees and shrubs that produce edible fruit. Unfortunately many of our traditional tree fruits require way too much effort in the form of pruning and spraying for disease and insect pests. The fruit is a hard wooden shell with normally three hard seeds inside.

However it can be eaten though it need to be washed carefully then dried. The fruit begins to ripen during spring to summer depending on the temperature in the area. The common rubber tree ficus elastica or rubber plant if grown indoors is a species of fig tree and is totally related to the edible figs that you buy in the grocery or the fig tree in the bible. It looks very inedible.

Specific epithet refers to the milky sap that can be used to produce rubber. Eriobotrya japonica is a large evergreen shrub or small tree with a rounded crown short trunk and woolly new twigs the tree can grow to 5 10 metres 16 33 ft tall but is often smaller about 3 4 metres 10 13 ft. Genus name comes from the latin name for ficus carica the edible fig. Another notable ficus species is the sycamore fig f.

The bo tree or pipal f. Tree and fruit classification. The common name of ficus elastica rubber fig tree refers to the milky white sap that is tapped from the tree s bark. These are fake fruits that contain fertile seeds only in areas where the pollinating insect is present.

Types of dried figs will be explained in another article in the future. Sycomorus which has mulberry like leaves hard wood and edible fruit. Inside the hard seeds is rubbery white flesh which taste awful if eaten raw. Growing a rubber tree plant can be frustrating if all its needs are not met.

The fruit is a small yellow green oval fig 1 centimetre 0 39 in long barely edible. So when learning how to care for rubber tree houseplants or even outdoors there are a few key things you should know to find success. Read the pages that follow and your rubber tree plant care will be easy.