Ficus elastica leaves the latex of the plant oozing, is coated with cuttings hormones and tightly wrapped with moist foam. The whole is covered with a plastic film and left a few months at the end of which new roots have developed from the axillary buds. The stem is then weaned and the new plant can be repotted. All parts of the plant contain an abundant milky white latex, which has been tested for use in the manufacture of rubber, but without economic and technical results; the rubber is actually produced from the sap of the rubber tree . In cultivation, it
Ficus septica by fig wasps from the genus "Ceratosolen". Usually members of the genus "Ficus" are pollinated by a single species of pollinating fig wasps specific to each fig species, but recent observations of "Ficus septica" have shown there to be three pollinating species in the South of Taiwan and two in The Philippines. The figs of "Ficus septica" have been reported to be eaten by 22 animal species and among them 14 are bats: Ficus septica Ficus septica (called Hauli tree in the Philippines, 棱果榕 in China and Taiwan) is a shrub or tree of the family Moraceae living at low