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
What You Mean We? to get a show put together for a fast-approaching opening." "What you mean, we?" the Clone replies sullenly. The first musical number in the film is an early version—performed by the Clone—of a song titled "The Dream Before" (a.k.a. "Hansel and Gretel are Alive and Well"), which would later be recorded for Anderson's album "Strange Angels". After this sequence, the film shifts to an all-night diner where an incompetent chef is shown causing havoc in a kitchen while making breakfast and singing along to a fast dance mix of the song "Smoke Rings" from Anderson's then-recent concert film "Home of