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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.
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 ...
Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus elastica: rubber tree; rubber fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus erecta: inu-biwa; Japanese fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus fistulosa: yellow-stem fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus fraseri: shiny sandpaper fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus glomerata: cluster fig Moraceae (mulberry family) Ficus ...
They replaced native trees, including those with medicinal or ritualistic value such as the sasswood, red ironwood, and Cassipourea firestoneana trees, with meticulously arranged rows of rubber trees. [39] Tapping operations commenced shortly thereafter, and by 1940, Firestone had achieved a production of over 7,000 tons of latex per year. [40]
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.
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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.
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