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  2. Hevea brasiliensis - Wikipedia

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    Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree, sharinga tree, seringueira, or most commonly, rubber tree or rubber plant, is a flowering plant belonging to the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, originally native to the Amazon basin, but is now pantropical in distribution due to introductions.

  3. Hevea - Wikipedia

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    Hevea is a genus of flowering plants in the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae, with about ten members. It is also one of many names used commercially for the wood of the most economically important rubber tree, H. brasiliensis. The genus is native to tropical South America but is widely cultivated in other tropical countries and naturalized in ...

  4. Hevea benthamiana - Wikipedia

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    Hevea benthamiana is a species of rubber tree in the genus Hevea, belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. A medium-sized deciduous tree growing to a height of about 27 m (90 ft), it is native to the rainforests of northern Brazil, Colombia and Venezuela.

  5. Hevea nitida - Wikipedia

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    Hevea nitida is a species of rubber tree in the genus Hevea, belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. It is a medium-sized evergreen tree up to 27 m (90 ft) tall. It is native to the rainforests of northern Brazil and Colombia. [1]

  6. Tropical vegetation - Wikipedia

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    Rainforest vegetation is categorized by five layers. The top layer being the upper tree layer. Here you will find the largest and widest trees in all the forest. These trees tend to have very large canopy's so they can be fully exposed to sunlight. A layer below that is the middle tree layer. Here you will find more compact trees and vegetation.

  7. Free at Rio Olympics: 9 million forest-friendly condoms

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    The factory, run by the Acre state government, uses latex gathered from Amazon rubber trees by tappers who are employed by a government-run program designed to protect their traditional livelihood ...

  8. Natural rubber - Wikipedia

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    The major commercial source of natural rubber latex is the Amazonian rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), [1] a member of the spurge family, Euphorbiaceae.Once native to Brazil, the species is now pan-tropical.

  9. A palm oil company, a group of US financiers, and the ... - AOL

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    But the creation of the plantations came at a steep price. To make way for those industrial fields of palm trees, some 30,000 acres of rainforest were cut down, a swath of destruction that one ...

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