How to Use rubber plant in a Sentence

rubber plant

noun
  • The rubber plant is famous for broad, glossy, dark green leaves.
    — Tamara Gane, Southern Living, 7 May 2021
  • Rose, my ruby rubber plant, tips more and more to the right with each new leaf, asking me to repot her.
    — Alicia Andrzejewski, Outside Online, 15 Apr. 2022
  • This pink rubber plant can add some color to mom’s greenery collection.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 4 May 2023
  • As for the corner of your living room, taller, low-light picks like rubber plant (pictured) or dragon tree would do the trick.
    — Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 21 Aug. 2018
  • He's moved on from those dark days and is now the proud plant parent to some of his favorite types, including the peace lily and rubber plant.
    — Michaela Bechler, Vogue, 19 Mar. 2019
  • Creeping fig is a vining cousin to woody ficus varieties like fiddle leaf fig and rubber plants.
    — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The rubber plant's milky sap contains a compound called caoutchouc, which can cause allergic skin reactions.
    — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 30 Apr. 2022
  • Medium-light plants include begonia, croton, fiddle-leaf fig, peperomia, rubber plant, schefflera, and spider plant.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Sep. 2021
  • Poinsettias belong to the same botanical family as rubber plants that produce latex, so some skin rashes occur in people allergic to latex.
    — Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2017
  • New crops like hemp, which has enormous potential yet remains mired in red tape, and guayule, a desert rubber plant that the Bridgestone tire company is developing, offer glimmers of hope.
    — Bill Hatcher, National Geographic, 12 Nov. 2019
  • That meant certain costs the twin operations were supposed to share, including site development and systems to treat and recycle water, fell entirely on the rubber plant.
    — Laura Vozzella, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • His old block in this majority-Black community backs up to a synthetic rubber plant that has for decades spewed a chemical into the air that federal regulators say is likely to cause cancer.
    — Katie Reimchen, NBC News, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Native to Asian countries like India and Indonesia, Ficus elastica is known as the rubber plant, rubber tree, rubber fig, and rubber bush, along with other names.
    — Kaitlyn Yarborough, Southern Living, 4 Dec. 2023
  • Choose the Right Potting Mix A high-quality potting mix labeled for houseplants works well for most tropical plants, including pothos, philodendrons, and rubber plants.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Apr. 2026
  • This propagation method works on many tropical plants often grown indoors, including weeping fig, rubber plant, hibiscus, schefflera, dracaena, dieffenbachia, pothos, and crotons.
    — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
  • This propagation method works on many tropical plants often grown indoors, including weeping fig, rubber plant, hibiscus, schefflera, dracaena, dieffenbachia, pothos, and crotons.
    — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Mar. 2023
  • Some of our favorite varieties include ripple peperomia, watermelon peperomia, baby rubber plant, and silverleaf peperomia.
    — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2023
  • Some of our favorite varieties include ripple peperomia, watermelon peperomia, baby rubber plant, and silverleaf peperomia.
    — Savanna Bous, Better Homes & Gardens, 16 Dec. 2023
  • In 1937, a rubber plant physician observed that workers exposed to disulfiram displayed adverse reactions to alcohol, including nausea, vomiting and tachycardia – meaning fast heart rate.
    — Joseph P. Schacht, The Conversation, 20 May 2024
  • The rubber plant continued operating after the collapse of the Soviet Union but shut down in 2010, because of mismanagement, corruption, and the global financial crisis.
    — Luke Mogelson, The New Yorker, 23 July 2022

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