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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.
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.
Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) 6. Cacao (Theobroma cacao) 7. Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica) New World crops are those crops, food and otherwise, that are native to the New World (mostly the Americas) and were not found in the Old World before 1492 AD.
Euphorbia characias flowers. Euphorbiaceae (/ j uː ˈ f oʊ r b iː ˌ eɪ s i ˌ aɪ,-s iː ˌ iː /), the spurge family, is a large family of flowering plants.In English, they are also commonly called euphorbias, [2] which is also the name of the type genus of the family.
Rubber plant is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Para rubber tree , a major commercial source of natural rubber Castilla elastica , a source of rubber for the ancient Maya people
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.
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 kurzii: thick-rinded fig Moraceae (mulberry ...