Forty minutes south of Phoenix, just past the once-sleepy town of Maricopa and the last bit of suburban sprawl, the Arizona desert gives way to thousands of acres lined with row after row of funny ...

The rubber plant, also known as ficus elastica is a member of the Moraceae family and originates from Asia, particularly India, Malaysia and Java, this is according to Feng Shui research. In the wild ...

If you aren't in the habit of pruning your rubber plant, you're only holding your plant back from becoming a full, bushy ...

The few strips of shrubby vegetation growing near railroad tracks in the middle of a southeast Valley industrial park look like someone's small garden project. But the plot at Yulex Corp. isn't being ...

Time for the autumn shift. Outdoor flowerpots are replanted with cold-hardy flowers, so it’s time to start cleaning up Big ...

The Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona is the hottest desert in the United States. The climate is severe, delivering an extreme contrast between aridity and moisture thanks to its warm subtropical ...

The roots of Taraxacum kok-saghyz, a species of dandelion known as TK that has proven to be a valuable alternative to natural rubber trees. Photo credit: Farmed Materials. A tire company is ...

The French botanist and biologist Francis Hallé has spent 40 years in pursuit of the strange and beautiful plant specimens of the rainforest. In his Atlas of Poetic Botany, excerpted below, he invites ...

Q: My rubber plant is top heavy, and the roots are coming out of the soil in the container. How do I trim it and root the limbs? I also have a tall schefflera that keeps falling over. How do I trim it ...

PUERTO LOPEZ, COLOMBIA — As Walter Lopez carefully stripped a diagonal ribbon of bark from a rubber tree in eastern Colombia, white latex began dripping down the cut and into a miniature pail nailed ...