Rubber Tree Description

Description of the rubber tree hevea brasiliensis.

Rubber tree description.

It is known for its laticiferous system from which latex is extracted by tapping the trunk. And a large area of bark. The trunk develops aerial and buttressing roots to anchor it in the soil and help support heavy branches. Cultivars and their differences.

It is a tropical tree that grows to a height of 30 meters 40 meters and has a leafy crown. 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. Emerald point hardy rubber tree eucommia ulmoides empozam. It has broad shiny oval leaves 10 35 centimetres 3 9 13 8 in long and 5 15.

In the 1800s most sap to make rubber came from south america. The wood of rubber tree. The trunk is cylindrical and may have a swollen bottle shaped base. 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.

Facts about rubber tree 9. 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. Fruit cone nut and seed descriptions. The botanical name of the rubber tree is hevea brasilienis.

Petals are rarely present. Rubber tree hevea brasiliensis south american tropical tree of the spurge family euphorbiaceae. The fruit is a seed enclosed in a waxy wing capsule. The trunk is smooth and straight with a grayish bark.

It has a cylindrical trunk that is swollen towards the base. Leaves are trifoliate 10 to 15 cm. South asia and southeast asia have the most rubber tree plantations. 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.

When the rubber tree reaches 30 years old the wood will be used to make furniture pieces. The bark is some shade of brown and the inner bark oozes latex when damaged. 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. Facts about rubber tree 10.

Hevea brasiliensis is the tree that most rubber comes from. The locations of rubber tree plantations. Flowers are of one sex and male and female flowers are usually borne on the same plant. 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.

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. A columnar upright narrow oval tree reaching 30 40 feet high and 15 feet. It belongs to the genus euphorbiaceae. The rubber tree plant is also called the rubber wood tree or rubber fig tree.