If you're looking for a low maintenance plant that's a little more unique than the usual plants that land themselves on 'hard to kill' lists, the Ficus elastica, or rubber plant, is a great option.

The botanical name is Ficus elastica, where the genus (first) name comes from the Latin name for the edible fig ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At home, these beauts boast large, dark green leaves and can be maintained as a medium-size houseplant or grown to impressive ...

Strategist writer David Notis alerted us to the ease and quality of buying plants from Amazon, and ever since he bought his fiddle-leaf fig, we’ve eyed ZZ plants, snake plants (also on sale), and more ...

From the National Garden Bureau (NGB), 2026 is The Year of the Ficus!

Even if you don’t grow edible fruits, it’s likely you’ve grown some sort of ornamental fig. They range from creeping vines to majestic trees, most of them tropical, in which case they can make ...

So, you have a rubber plant, and you want to help it thrive. We can help with that, but first…what on earth is a rubber plant anyway? The popular houseplant known as the rubber plant (i.e., Ficus ...