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
Site of Ficus superba var. henneana tree with originally of land, later subdivided to in the 1950s, and one acre lots in the 1960s. The castle with its substantial landscaped grounds was built by newspaper propietor Frank Bennett, and had been host to a number of notable guests and visitors in his ownership, tenanted later by Dame Nellie Melba, and other notable guests in later periods when used as a private hotel and banking executive training school. Site of "Ficus superba var. henneana" tree was listed on the New South Wales State Heritage Register on 2 April 1999. Site of Ficus superba var. henneana tree Site of