Rubber tree is a large shade tolerant foliage plant. If you have a rubber tree in your home, you must be curious whether it will blossom, so will rubber tree blossom? Here's what I want to tell you:
In fact, the rubber tree will blossom, but you can't see it, because its flower is a hidden flower inflorescence, just like the fig flower, you can only see the fruit, but you can't see the flower. Speaking of this, whether you are still confused, it doesn't matter, Xiao Bian continues to explain.
Male flower, female flower and gall flower in fig fruit
Rubber tree, also known as Ficus indusiana, is a kind of Ficus in Moraceae, and Ficus has a common feature. They are all cryptogamous plants, and their flowers are hidden deep in the cones. Ficus flowers are very small, a botanist figuratively said: a flower is much smaller than the full stop in our books. Although the flower is small, it has perianth, ovary, pollen and embryo, and needs to blossom and bear fruit. There are three kinds of flowers in Ficus: male flower, female flower and gall flower. The male flowers impart pollen and the female flowers give birth to fruit. Gall flower? Gall flower is a kind of neutral flower specialized from female flower. It neither imparts pollen nor breeds fruit, but provides a place for oviposition and hatching of fig wasps living with Ficus plants.
Speaking of this, we all understand that the male flower, female flower and gall flower of rubber tree are all wrapped in cones, so rubber tree will blossom, but we can't see it.
The flowers of the rubber tree are in the fruit
Rubber tree this special inflorescence, looks like fruit, known as Ficus, also known as cryptocarpus. Botanists say that this is a major evolution of Ficus plants, their flowers are too many, too small, easy to be destroyed by external forces, wrapped with a spherical inflorescence, it is safe. In this way, rubber tree is still a very smart plant!