Emerald point hardy rubber tree eucommia ulmoides empozam.
Rubber tree description.
It is a large tree in the banyan group of figs growing to 30 40 metres 98 131 ft rarely up to 60 metres or 200 feet tall with a stout trunk up to 2 metres 6 6 ft in diameter.
The tree can grow to over 100 feet tall 30 meters in the wild and as an indoor houseplant it usually grows to between 2 6 meters.
Flowers are of one sex and male and female flowers are usually borne on the same plant.
It has a cylindrical trunk that is swollen towards the base.
The fruit is a seed enclosed in a waxy wing capsule.
Petals are rarely present.
It belongs to the genus euphorbiaceae.
In the 1800s most sap to make rubber came from south america.
South asia and southeast asia have the most rubber tree plantations.
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The locations of rubber tree plantations.
Rubber tree hevea brasiliensis south american tropical tree of the spurge family euphorbiaceae.
Brasiliensis is a tall deciduous tree growing to a height of up to 43 m 141 ft in the wild but cultivated trees are usually much smaller because drawing off the latex restricts the growth of the tree.
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Flowers of the largest genus euphorbia are in cup shaped clusters called cyathia each of which seems to be a single female flower but actually consists of a single pistil surrounded by several male flowers each of which has a single stamen.
The rubber tree plant is also called the rubber wood tree or rubber fig tree.
The wood of rubber tree.
Hevea brasiliensis is the tree that most rubber comes from.
It is a tropical tree that grows to a height of 30 meters 40 meters and has a leafy crown.
When the rubber tree reaches 30 years old the wood will be used to make furniture pieces.
The rubber tree hevea brasiliensis is a fast growing medium to tall tree 25 m high in plantations and up to 40 m in the wild with deep tap roots.
It has broad shiny oval leaves 10 35 centimetres 3 9 13 8 in long and 5 15.
The plant produces a milky colored latex sap which can be retrieved from the plant once it matures to an age of about six years old.
A columnar upright narrow oval tree reaching 30 40 feet high and 15 feet.
Fruit cone nut and seed descriptions.
Description of the rubber tree hevea brasiliensis.
The bark is some shade of brown and the inner bark oozes latex when damaged.
The botanical name of the rubber tree is hevea brasilienis.
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.
The trunk develops aerial and buttressing roots to anchor it in the soil and help support heavy branches.
It is known for its laticiferous system from which latex is extracted by tapping the trunk.
The trunk is cylindrical and may have a swollen bottle shaped base.
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The trunk is smooth and straight with a grayish bark.
Other plants that have the special sap called latex are figs ficus elastica castilla panama rubber tree euphorbias lettuce the common dandelion taraxacum kok saghyz russian dandelion scorzonera tau saghyz and guayule.
