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
• Are rubber plants safe around pets? Is caring for your rubber tree easy?
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 10 May 2023
• 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
• 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
• This pink rubber plant can add some color to mom’s greenery collection.
  — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 4 May 2023
• The rubber plant's milky sap contains a compound called caoutchouc, which can cause allergic skin reactions.
  — Monique Valeris, Good Housekeeping, 30 Apr. 2022
• Available in a variety of plants and sizes: a set of small cactuses, a medium snake plant, a large rubber plant, philodendron and cactus.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 Oct. 2020
• Writers on the interiors blog apartmenttherapy.com debated about which plant would launch the next craze, alternately championing the monstera or the rubber plant as the new fiddle leaf.
  — Cindy Dampier, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
• 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
• 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
• In 1963, he and his younger brother were arrested after protesting for the integration of a local rubber plant; a local civil rights leader in that campaign, Wharlest Jackson Sr., was later killed in a still-unsolved car bombing.
  — Rachel Weiner, Washington Post, 20 Nov. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Bombing targets included airfields, synthetic rubber plants and aircraft manufacturing plants in Germany and occupied countries such as Norway, Belgium and the Netherlands.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• 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, 13 June 2022
• 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, 17 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024