Symptoms include the appearance of yellow or white spots and patches on the leaves.
Rubber tree leaves brown spots.
Plants with spotted leaves.
Caused by a bacteria called xanthomonas campestris it is characterized by tiny oozing spots that appear on the leaves eventually causing them to yellow and die.
Rubber tree plants suffer from disease when grown in improper climates.
Remove all leaves with brown spots from plants and also remove any dropped leaves to help break the life cycle of these diseases.
Rubber trees have multiple trunks and thick fleshy leaves with a glossy dark green sheen.
Brown spots on my ficus rubber tree s leaves.
If you re tired of coddling the notoriously fickle fiddle leaf fig or weary of picking up dropped leaves from your weeping fig every day try a rubber plant.
Younger leaves may become malformed and turn from green to brown according to the pennsylvania state university cooperative extension.
If the air is too dry the tips will dry out first and the yellow brown spots will grow inwards.
The rubber plant is one of my favorite invincible houseplants because i know it will soon recover from this little mishap.
Rubber trees ficus elastica are broadleaf evergreen trees that grow about 25 feet tall in the landscape.
When temperatures drop below 40 degrees f a rubber tree plant may display irregularly shaped brown spots on established leaf surfaces.
The spots may turn brown as tissue dies and the leaves may fall off the plants.
Once you notice brown spots a disease is already present.
When the plant is well hydrated leaves are strong and firm holding up well with a nice waxy glow.
They re fast growers with the right light conditions and can last 15 years or more with proper care.
This can happen when plants that are used to low light are moved to a brighter spot.
Those plant leaf spots are caused by one of nature s most basic organisms.
Predisposed to enjoy partial shade rubber tree plants grow to heights between 2 and 10 feet tall indoors.
And while there are many reasons for plain old brown spots when those spots look like little brown bull s eyes the answer my friends is fairly simple organism wise that is.
If you notice brown spots on your rubber tree whether they re caused by a fungal or bacterial problem it may be difficult to manage the disease.
But indoors a rubber tree typically tops out at 6 to 10 feet tall.