At ground level, leaves of the giant rubber tree at Construction House in Hobart's CBD press against the glass, visible to passers by. What they can't see is the plant grows up through the entire ...

Planted in 1877 at the Seremban Lake Garden, the rubber tree, with a trunk circumference of 4.5m and a height of over 25m, is estimated to have a value of RM750,000. Brought to Malaya by Sir Henry ...