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3 unusual facts about Ficus elastica


Café La Biela

The café has a large terrace in front with outdoor tables under the shade of a giant rubber tree, and is a popular with locals and tourists alike.

Cystolith

Cystolith (Gr. "cavity" and "stone") is a botanical term for the inorganic concretions, usually of calcium carbonate, formed in a cellulose matrix in special cells called lithocysts, generally in the leaf of plants of certain families, e.g. Ficus elastica, the Indian rubber plant of the family Moraceae.

Script for a Jester's Tear

There was supposed to be a rubber plant featured on the album's cover, per Fish's request – part of Fish's stage theatrics at the time included tearing apart a rubber plant at the climax of The Web.



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