Where Do Rubber Trees Come From

Types of polyisoprene that are used as natural rubbers are classified as elastomers.

Where do rubber trees come from. Find out how natural rubber grows and learn how the loca. Columbus brought back rubber balls with him upon returning from his second voyage to the new world and in the early 1700s rubber samples and trees were brought back to europe. Rubber tree hevea brasiliensis south american tropical tree of the spurge family euphorbiaceae. Natural rubber also called india rubber latex amazonian rubber caucho or caoutchouc as initially produced consists of polymers of the organic compound isoprene with minor impurities of other organic compounds plus water thailand and indonesia are two of the leading rubber producers.

Originally rubber was produced from the latex of ficus elestica a type of fig tree today most natural rubber also called india rubber is derived from the natural latex extracted from the pará rubber tree hevea brasiliensis a plant native to the amazon but now grown commercially in equatorial regions of southeast asia latex is harvested from the trees by slitting the. As its name suggests the rubber tree hevea brasiliensis originally came from brazil from where it was introduced to such countries of the far east as malaysia indonesia burma cambodia china and vietnam. This video is about rubber trees. Cultivated on plantations in the tropics and subtropics especially in southeast asia and western africa it replaced the rubber plant in the early 20th century as the chief source of natural rubber it has soft wood.

And a large area of bark. Where does rubber come from. When a rubber tree reaches maturity at 6 to 7 years of age it will produce latex for around 30 years. Hevea brasiliensis the pará rubber tree sharinga tree seringueira or most commonly the rubber tree or rubber plant is a flowering plant belonging to the spurge family euphorbiaceae it is the most economically important member of the genus hevea because the milky latex extracted from the tree is the primary source of natural rubber.

Rubber made in the mesoamerican way resembled a pencil eraser. The main reason for that is rubber trees behave differently than vanilla trees. Where does rubber come from. At that time rubber was still a novelty.

This process was used to make rubber items until around the 1800s. Earlier this year greg and i travelled to thailand where we discovered that rubber comes from trees. During world war ii supplies of natural rubber from these nations were cut off just when there was a huge.