Rubber Tree Fruit Edible

Sycomorus which has mulberry like leaves hard wood and edible fruit.

Rubber tree fruit edible.

The bo tree or pipal f. It looks very inedible. 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. The fruit is a hard wooden shell with normally three hard seeds inside.

Unfortunately many of our traditional tree fruits require way too much effort in the form of pruning and spraying for disease and insect pests. That is those that require minimal pesticides and management. These are fake fruits that contain fertile seeds only in areas where the pollinating insect is present. Tree and fruit classification.

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. However it can be eaten though it need to be washed carefully then dried. Types of dried figs will be explained in another article in the future. Genus name comes from the latin name for ficus carica the edible fig.

Religiosa is sacred in india because of its association with the buddha. The natural range of rubber ranges from nepal in the north to indonesia bhutan northeastern india burma and china and malaysia. Inside the hard seeds is rubbery white flesh which taste awful if eaten raw. 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.

The fruit begins to ripen during spring to summer depending on the temperature in the area. Specific epithet refers to the milky sap that can be used to produce rubber. Growing a rubber tree plant can be frustrating if all its needs are not met. The common name of ficus elastica rubber fig tree refers to the milky white sap that is tapped from the tree s bark.

Fig types based on tree and fruit or fig tree classification is our discussion in this article. The fruit is a small yellow green oval fig 1 centimetre 0 39 in long barely edible. 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.