What is harvested from the rubber tree is raw latex, which is either sold as latex or processed into natural rubber.
Exploitation of the rubber tree.
As the useful lifetime of a rubber tree is no more than twenty years, replanting must go on continuously if productivity is to be maintained.
An average rubber tree produces two to three lbs.
No chemist has yet succeeded in producing a substance repeating the exact chain of molecules that nature produces in the rubber tree.
When the price was up he concentrated on his rubber tree and neglected his subsistence crop.
New buildings filled the southern end of the street while the northern end was still a rubber tree forest.
Vernacular names for the plant include false rubber tree and kurchi bark.
