In today's article, we will talk about the rubber plant leaves drooping issue. If you have a rubber plant in your home, often ...

This dark, leafy green beauty will thrive in your home with these pro tips. Rubber trees, or Ficus elastica, are a pretty ...

Hiratsuka, Japan – Yokohama Rubber Co. (YRC) has joined a research project to develop a new biomass business model to make use of discarded rubber tree seeds.

The black-and-white photograph shows a man, perched on the edge of a wooden deck, looking down at two objects. At first, you can't take in what they are. In the background are palm trees.

The researchers believe the Maya masons obtained the rubber from local trees and used it as a binder along with a fine-grained clay to create a durable mortar to bind the stonework together.

Being a tree crop with over 20 years of economic lifespan and 5 metres (upper limit) height, rubber has an entitlement to be a forest plantation. The eligibility comes under Aforestation and ...

Since Petch's “The Diseases and Pests of the Rubber Tree” (1921) and Steinmann's “Diseases and Pests of Hevea brasiliensis” (1925) were published, there has been great activity in ...

Natural rubber is made from latex harvested from Para rubber trees. Indonesia's rubber plantation area is the world's largest, with 3.6 million hectares. It's followed by Thailand, with 3.1 ...

The rubber tree seed escape essentially destroyed the Amazonian rubber boom, and Wickham’s pods became the foundation of Southeast Asian production which still dominates the rubber market today.

ONE of the first rubber trees planted in Malaysia is now over a century old. It continues to thrive in the heart of Seremban, drawing tourists to Negri Sembilan. Planted in 1877 at the Seremban ...

KUALA KANGSAR: The first rubber tree planted in Malaysia, estimated to be over 140 years old, is now said to be worth almost RM200,000. Kuala Kangsar Municipal Council (MPKK) secretary Saiful Azli ...

Natural rubber is actually harvested in the form of latex from rubber trees. It's a sticky white liquid collected by making specific incisions in the bark. To prepare it for making tires ...