How to Use rubber tree in a Sentence

rubber tree

noun
Definition of rubber treenext
  • The best plant for this style is a large-scale rubber tree plant in a large handmade pot.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 2 July 2019
  • Native to the jungles of India and Malaysia, the rubber tree can top out at 6 to 10 feet tall indoors.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 18 Apr. 2023
  • If a small indoor tree for feng shui is on your radar, the rubber tree plant's thick, glossy leaves and purple stripes may fit the bill.
    — Jacqueline Saguin, Good Housekeeping, 6 Sep. 2022
  • Although the rubber tree is carefully cut and tapped, the guayule is chopped to the ground and its branches mashed up to extract the latex.
    — Adrian Higgins, Washington Post, 12 June 2019
  • The sticker shock that Brown saw at Tire Town started more than two years earlier in a stand of rubber trees.
    — Michael Grabell, ProPublica, 3 May 2023
  • Johnson visited the settlement to see for himself the rubber tree that put Malaysia on the map.
    — Fox News, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Latex is the milky white fluid produced by the rubber tree, and it can be harvested without killing the tree.
    — Starre Vartan, Treehugger, 24 Jan. 2023
  • Previous leafy finds from the Amazon led to the discovery of the rubber tree and the cinchona tree, which is used to make the malaria drug quinine.
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 15 July 2016
  • With thick, dark-green leaves, the rubber tree can grow into a tall, beautiful statement piece.
    — Washington Post, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Two years later, in 1959, Goodrich-Gulf published the rubber tree, as symbolic to this era as Hoffman’s tree had been in his time.
    — Rebecca Altman, The Atlantic, 4 Oct. 2017
  • Latex foam is made from rubber tree sap, while memory foam is a type of polyurethane plastic.
    — Lauren Corona, chicagotribune.com, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Window views show a Mississippi plantation on the right and a south Vietnamese rubber tree grove to the left.
    — Edith Newhall, Philly.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • And so her dining room is ornamented with trailing pothos, ZZ plants and a pink rubber tree.
    — Elizabeth G. Dunn, New York Times, 16 Aug. 2019
  • In the Indian state of Meghalaya, one of the wettest places on Earth, villagers weave the roots of living rubber trees into sturdy pedestrian bridges.
    — Nina Strochlic, National Geographic, 29 Oct. 2019
  • The Amazon, relied on for centuries for rubber trees, minerals and fertile land, was the obvious place to go.
    — New York Times, 5 Dec. 2019
  • The customary equipment for the game was a hard rubber ball, and Castilla elastica rubber trees grow in the lowland coastal regions.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 25 Mar. 2020
  • Rubber Hot and dry weather is threatening many of Thailand’s rubber trees.
    — Randy Thanthong-Knight, Bloomberg.com, 5 May 2020
  • Four rubber trees tapped regularly for a year produce the 11 pounds of natural rubber found in the typical car tire.
    — Ted Evanoff, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2018
  • But a weeping ficus, or ficus benjamina, is not the same plant as ficus elastica, which is the rubber tree.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 10 Mar. 2021
  • Put on your gardening gloves (this is especially important with plants that have sap, as some—like the kind from a rubber tree—can irritate your skin), and cut the plant's stem below the node.
    — Brittney Morgan, House Beautiful, 17 Feb. 2020
  • Natural latex is harvested from mature rubber trees and then processed to form the plush latex found in pillows.
    — Emma Seymour, goodhousekeeping.com, 25 May 2023
  • Their natural rubber comes from the milky sap of the hevea brasiliensis trees (or the Pará rubber tree), which can be ethically extracted without hurting the tree.
    — Seventeen, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The world produces about 2 billion tires each year, and while synthetic rubbers are used in modest amounts, most road tires use a lot of natural rubber from the para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis).
    — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2023
  • The area offers a pleasant walk among rubber trees and palm trees; friendly street cats and beautiful tropical birds; and stands where vendors display rustic goods and local crafts.
    — Alex Vros, Fox News, 19 July 2018
  • The problem is caused by a lack of new rubber tree planting during 2020, and poor weather and tree-health conditions that are affecting current plantations in Southeast Asia.
    — Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 8 May 2021
  • The rubber tree plant, which is also known as ficus elastica, is native to Southeast Asia, Indonesia and southern China.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Dead leaves on woody tropical plants, such as hibiscus, angel trumpet, croton, ixora, schefflera, copper plant and rubber tree, can be picked off to make things look neater.
    — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 22 Dec. 2020
  • One healthy alternative is latex, which is a natural product made from rubber trees.
    — Catherine Gaugh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 June 2023
  • Plus, Birkenstocks are one of the most eco-friendly sandals out there because the footbed is made from renewable resources, including natural cork and latex from rubber tree resin.
    — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Foods like avocados, bananas, and kiwi have proteins that are similar to latex, a protein found in rubber tree sap.
    — Stephanie Brown, Verywell Health, 8 May 2023

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