However hevea brasiliensis is the most commercially cultivated rubber plant.
What is a rubber tree plantation.
Rubber tree plantation has important impact on viet nam economy in recent years.
Yet we paid the owners of the michelin plantations 600 for each rubber tree we damaged while the family of a slain vietnamese child got no more than 120 in payout for a life the aftermath of a november 27 1965 battle at the michelin rubber plantation that claimed more than 100 lives.
This tree is what gives off the material to make rubber.
It can be easily steam bent or stained to resemble any other timber depending on consumer demand.
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.
Rubber is used for many purposes which may include erasers to tyres tubes industrial products.
Apart from eco friendly characteristic rubberwood s favourable for woodworking and timber properties because medium dense timber air dry density 560 650 kg m 3 suitable for a wide scope of applications.
The rainfall in the area for rubber plantation should be around 2000 mm annually.
The rubber tree may also be attacked by insects.
Types of polyisoprene that are used as natural rubbers are classified as elastomers.
Introduction of rubber basically rubber is an elastic solid material retrieved from latex of many tropical trees.
A british explorer henry wickham was hired to steal mass amounts of seeds for the tree havea brasiliensis.
And a large area of bark.
They do less serious damage.
The atmospheric humidity should be around 80 with moderate wind speed.
Control of disease of the roots.
The tree may be attacked by white root rot fomes which makes the roots rot.
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.
Wickham went to the amazon and in 1876 stole around 70 000 seeds.
Rubber tree hevea brasiliensis south american tropical tree of the spurge family euphorbiaceae.
Rubber trees require bright sunlight for about 20000 hours 6 hours a day.
When forests grow they absorb the carbon a greenhouse gas whose emission is mainly responsible for climate.
Then the tree dies.
It is very important to see if white root rot has attacked a tree because by the time you see that the tree is ill it is too late.
Recognizing this potential the british set out in hopes to set up rubber plantations in the colonies they owned.