Today, though, almost all of the world’s rubber supply comes from Hevea brasiliensis, also called the Pará rubber tree. Though it originated in the Amazon rainforest, native South American ...

In 1876, he emerged from the Brazilian jungle and steamed to London with a cache of pilfered Hevea seeds, setting off a seismic shift in global rubber production. The rubber tree seed escape ...

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 ...