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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. Natural rubber - Wikipedia

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    Rubber latex is extracted from rubber trees. The economic life of rubber trees in plantations is around 32 years, with up to 7 years being an immature phase and about 25 years of productive phase. The soil requirement is well-drained, weathered soil consisting of laterite, lateritic types, sedimentary types, nonlateritic red or alluvial soils.

  4. Ficus elastica - Wikipedia

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    Ficus elastica, the rubber fig, rubber bush, rubber tree, rubber plant, or Indian rubber bush, Indian rubber tree, is a species of flowering plant in the family Moraceae, native to eastern parts of South and Southeast Asia. It has become naturalized in Sri Lanka, the West Indies, and the US state of Florida.

  5. 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.

  6. Castilla elastica - Wikipedia

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    The Nahuatl word for rubber was ulli / olli, from which their word for the ballgame derived), and also their name for the ancient people they associated with the origin of the ballgame, the Olmecs (olmeca: "rubber people"). The Nahuatl word for the tree of Castilla elastica is olicuáhuitl; [4] in Spanish it is known as palo de hule.

  7. Landolphia owariensis - Wikipedia

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    Latex can be extracted from this plant for the manufacture of natural rubber. [1] Other names for this vine are eta , the white rubber vine and the Congo rubber plant. [ 2 ] Congo rubber was a commercial rubber exported from the Congo Free State starting in 1890, most notable for its forced harvesting under conditions of great human suffering ...

  8. Akron aims to bounce back, using its rubber and plastics ...

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    Not just rubber for tires, but for all the polymers and plastics that create so much of what we depend on today, from the toothbrush you pick up in the morning to the light switch you turn off at ...

  9. Rubberwood - Wikipedia

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    Rubberwood is a light-colored medium-density tropical hardwood obtained from the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), usually from trees grown in rubber plantations. [1] Rubberwood is commonly advertised as an "environmentally friendly" wood, as it makes use of plantation trees that have already served a useful function.

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