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The Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), often simply called rubber tree, is a tree belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae and the most economically important member of the genus Hevea. It is of major economic importance because its sap-like extract (known as latex) can be collected and is the primary source of natural rubber. Image File history File links Koeh-071. ...
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Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of land plants. ...
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Families Family Achariaceae Family Balanopaceae Family Bonnetiaceae Family Caryocaraceae Family Chrysobalanaceae Family Clusiaceae Family Ctenolophonaceae Family Dichapetalaceae Family Elatinaceae Family Erythryloxaceae (coca family) Family Euphorbiaceae (spurge family) Family Euphroniaceae Family Goupiaceae Family Humiriaceae Family Hypericaceae (St Johns wort family) Family Irvingiaceae Family Ixonanthaceae Family Lacistemaceae Family Linaceae (flax family...
Genera See text Ref: Euphorbiaceae in The Families of Flowering Plants, as of 2002-07-13 The Spurge family (Euphorbiaceae) is a large family of flowering plants with 280 genera and around 6000 species. ...
Genera See Subtaxa section The Crotonoideae is a subfamily of the family Euphorbiaceae. ...
Genera Subtribe Heveinae Hevea Subtribe Micrandrinae Cunuria Micrandra Micrandropsis Micrandreae is a tribe of the subfamily Crotonoideae, under the family Euphorbiaceae. ...
Binomial name Hevea brasiliensis Muell. ...
Latex being collected from a wounded rubber tree The Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is a tree belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. ...
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Description The tree can reach a height of over 30m. The white or yellow latex occurs in latex vessels in the bark, mostly outside the phloem. These vessels spiral up the tree in a righthanded spiral which forms an angle of about 30 degrees with the horizontal. For other uses, see Bark (disambiguation). ...
In vascular plants, phloem is the living tissue that carries organic nutrients, particularly sucrose, a sugar, to all parts of the plant where needed. ...
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Harvest Once the trees are 5-6 years old, the harvest can begin: incisions are made orthogonal to the latex vessels, just deep enough to tap the vessels without harming the tree's growth, and the sap is collected in small buckets. This process is known as rubber tapping. Older trees yield more latex, but they stop producing after 26-30 years. Rubber tapping in Kerala Rubber tapping is the process by which rubber is gathered. ...
History The Pará rubber tree initially grew only in the Amazon Rainforest. Increasing demand and the discovery of the vulcanization procedure in 1839 led to a boom in that region, enriching the cities of Manaus and Belém. The name of the tree derives from Pará, the Brazilian state that contains Belém. Map of the Amazon rainforest ecoregions as delineated by the WWF. Yellow line encloses the Amazon rainforest. ...
Vulcanization refers to a specific curing process of rubber involving high heat and the addition of sulfur. ...
Location in Brazil Country Region State Amazonas Founded 1669 Government - Mayor Serafim Corrêa (PSB) Area - City 11. ...
Nickname: Local da cidade de Belém, no estado do Pará State Pará County Belém Government - Mayor Duciomar Gomes da Costa Area - City 1,070 km² (413. ...
Capital (and largest city) Belém Demonym Paraense Government - Governor Ana Júlia Carepa - Vice Governor Odair Santos Corrêa Area - Total 1. ...
There had been an attempt made, in 1873, to grow rubber outside Brazil. After some effort, twelve seedlings were germinated at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. These were sent to India for cultivation, but died. A second attempt was then made, some 70,000 seeds being sent to Kew in 1875. About 4% of these germinated, and in 1876 about 2000 seedlings were sent, in Wardian cases, to Ceylon, and 22 sent to the Botanic Gardens in Singapore. Once established outside its native country, rubber was extensively propagated in the British colonies. Rubber trees were brought to the botanical gardens at Buitenzorg, Java in 1883.[1] By 1898, a rubber plantation had been established in Malaya, and today most rubber tree plantations are in Southeast Asia and some also in tropical Africa. Efforts to cultivate the tree in its native South America were unsatisfactory. For other places with the same name, see Royal Botanical Gardens (disambiguation). ...
The Wardian case, the direct forerunner of the modern terrarium (and the inspiration for the glass aquarium), was invented by Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward (1791-1868), of London, in about 1829 after an accidental discovery inspired him. ...
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The wood from this tree, referred to as parawood or rubberwood, is used in the manufacture of high-end furniture. It is valued for its dense grain, minimal shrinkage, attractive colour and acceptance of different finishes. It is also prized as an "environmentally friendly" wood, as it makes use of trees that have been cut down at the end of their latex-producing cycle. Rubberwood is wood from the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), often called the rubber tree. ...
Synonyms The genus Hevea is also known as: J. F. Gmelin Johann Friedrich Gmelin (August 8, 1748 - November 1, 1804) was a German naturalist , botanist and entomologist . ...
John Joseph Bennett (January 8, 1801 - February 29, 1876) was a British botanist. ...
Robert Brown (1773–1858) Robert Brown (December 21, 1773–June 10, 1858) is acknowledged as the leading British botanist to collect in Australia during the first half of the 19th century. ...
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (Weißensee, Thuringia, 1739 — Erlangen, 1810) was a German naturalist. ...
Henri Ernest Baillon was a French botanist and physician. ...
Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (Weißensee, Thuringia, 1739 — Erlangen, 1810) was a German naturalist. ...
See also Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Hevea brasiliensis Castilla elastica (genus Castilla) is a tree native to the tropical areas of Mexico and Central America which was, in pre-Columbian times, the principal source of latex among the MesoAmerican peoples. ...
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Gallery Rubber tree plantation in Phuket, Thailand Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 995 KB)A rubber tree plantation in Phuket, Thailand. ...
Phuket (Thai ภูเก็ต) is one of the southern provinces (changwat) of Thailand. ...
| Leaves of a Pará rubber tree Download high resolution version (2560x1920, 376 KB)Leaves of the rubber tree. ...
| Latex being collected from a wounded rubber tree Download high resolution version (1920x2560, 527 KB)Latex dripping out a rubber tree. ...
| Mindanao, Philippines, plantation worker Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 467 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1000 × 1284 pixel, file size: 937 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Location: Basilan Island; Mindanao, Philippines. ...
| Rubber tree Fruits Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 469 pixelsFull resolution (1440 × 845 pixel, file size: 272 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Hevea brasiliensis. ...
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References - ^ Winchester, Simon (2003). Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded, August 27, 1883. HarperCollins, 223-224. ISBN 0-06-621285-5.
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