People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1894 — A Different Plant. [ARTICLE]

A Different Plant.

The rubber plant that has become eo common a piece of domestic decoration is not the plant that yields the rubber of commerce. That is derived principally from two varieties of rub* her tree that grow in Brazil and attain a large size. The rubber plant of our American parlors and greenhouses, with its long, glossy leaves, would not pay for tapping. It is a species of fig and India is its habitat. A gum can be obtained from nearly every plant that exudes a milky sap, even from the common milkweed, and the number of rubber yielding plants is estimated at about five hundred.