Ficus elastica rubber making. Just as with "Hevea brasiliensis", the latex of "Ficus elastica" is an irritant to the eyes and skin and is toxic if taken internally. Ficus elastica Ficus elastica, the rubber fig, rubber bush, rubber tree, rubber plant, or Indian rubber bush, Indian rubber tree, is a species of plant in the fig genus, native to eastern parts of South Asia and southeast Asia. It has become naturalized in Sri Lanka, the West Indies, and the US State of Florida. It is a large tree in the banyan group of figs, growing to (rarely up to ) tall, with
Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We... indeed in his old school: his own handwriting in chalk on the blackboard: "Stranger, bear word to the Spartans we..." The story was first published by Verlag Friedrich Middelhauve in 1950 as the title story in a short story collection. Today, "Stranger, Bear Word to the Spartans We..." is one of Böll's most famous stories and is one of the best known of examples of Trümmerliteratur ("Rubble literature"). The unnamed first-person narrator begins the story in a truck and is transported through a partially burning city that he cannot identify, and is also unable to accurately gauge the amount of