DURING the early years of rubber planting in the East considerable optimism prevailed in certain quarters as to the powers of the Para rubber-tree (Hevea brasiliensis) to resist disease in its new ...

Ferrand in France: not an area – so far as Top Gear is aware – in which Pará rubber trees grow naturally or indeed at all, on ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. Natural latex from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is a hot commodity, with consumption increasing worldwide at an average rate of ...

A latex allergy occurs when the immune system responds abnormally to latex, which comes from the sap of the rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, found in Africa and Southeast Asia. Latex is found in a ...

of several rain forest trees. The rubber which fueled the so-called "rubber boom" and its related atrocities in the Amazon came from the *Hevea* tree, very common in the upper Manu and known as ...