Talk:Hevea brasiliensis

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What kind of soil and climate would rubber trees require for healthy growth ? For one I guess it grows only in the tropics. Jay 18:25, 9 August 2005 (UTC)

You can find more information about rubber trees than you'll ever need from the Project Gutenberg's online source of "The Romance of Rubber" by the U.S. Rubber Company here. In particular: The tree grows wild in the hot, damp forests of the Amazon valley and in other parts of South America that have a similar climate. The ideal climate for the rubber tree is one which is uniform all the year round, from eighty-nine to ninety-four degrees at noon, and not lower than seventy degrees at night. -D. Wu 00:04, 10 August 2005 (UTC)

Redirected Amazon link to Amazon Rainforest. It used to lead to a disambiguity page. Grate aritcle everyone! Banana04131 13:14 August 14

Umm... Hey! Thanks for the link to the book thing! It helps a lot in my assignment.  :) (nearly forgot the signature) Frodo 11011 04:33, 4 March 2007 (UTC)

Um... and also, what is it's consveration status? I can't find any information on that. Thanks for all the help so far! Frodo 11011 02:12, 7 March 2007 (UTC)

rubbertree care

just 1 question ? can you cut a rubber tree plant so it is not bare at the bottom? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.145.209.79 (talk) 15:25, 1 April 2007 (UTC).

Maybe a link to Rubber_tapping should be added to this article. DreamOfShadows 01:38, 16 May 2007 (UTC)DreamOfShadows

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Has anyone heard of a rubber plant seed? Does it reproduce asexually?(and without the human beings,)Joshywawa (talk) 09:51, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Confusing sentence

"Efforts to cultivate the tree in its native South America use to be unsatisfactory; recently, due to oil rise prices, to crescent demand of stortive cars pneus and improoving cultivation methods, it is been satisfactory cultivated in some hot brazilian sites."

This was just added to the article. What is it trying to say, and can someone render it into clearer English? Until it makes any sense, I'm going to remove it. -GTBacchus^(talk) 21:37, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

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In Brazil, rubber tree is planted

The article writes:"Efforts to cultivate the tree in its native South America were unsatisfactory, because of blight.[1]".In southeast of Brazil in states such as São Paulo, Minas Gerais and many others, plantation with this tree are sucessfull.In brazilian state of Bahia, there's sucessfull farms, with plantations of rubber tree, since 1920 decade or even before.Agre22 (talk) 23:46, 13 January 2009 (UTC)agre22

That statement is at least partially accurate. Henry Ford's Brazilian rubber plantation, Fordlândia, was a failure, partly due to blight. There are statements in this article that are more blatantly inaccurate. Someone wrote that this tree originated in West Africa and was brought to South America, which is definitely not true. In addition, the article states that the tree can reach 144 ft, while a few sentences later it reads "Can reach 45 ft." Apparently some editors just write whatever they feel like. I removed a sentence regarding the tree's commercial availability around the world, as it was poorly stated and irrelevant. It's as if a troll has messed with this article; the answers.com archive of this article is more coherent and useful.--TDogg310 (talk) 06:47, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Rubberwood

There is a vested interest in selling rubberwood furniture; the sellers would like the public to believe the wood is better than it is (it is average in strength, not particularly pretty, and not durable at all, very susceptible to decay). This vested interest turns up here, in this page and in the separate page rubberwood (apparently created only for purposes of promoting the wood). As a commercial interest is involved I assume this will keep on recurring indefinitely. -Ibbel (talk) 11:19, 5 May 2009 (UTC)

I sell para wood furniture at a retail store for a living. We also sell a variety of furniture from different types of wood. Para wood is a good quality hard wood. When stained it has a nice texture and it is durable. I buy it for my own house. Ibbel you have no idea what you are talking about. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.19.228.175 (talk) 03:11, 11 August 2009 (UTC)

Rubber trees don't exist & people who think they do are epic donkey scros. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.166.178.204 (talk) 05:14, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

It's strange to me that the reference to rubberwood furniture is still in this article, bit it does not include source information. If the information is accurate, there should be no issue referencing a source, and if it's not it should be removed. Can anybody provide source material for this information? Richardsw (talk) 19:15, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

I removed the reference to rubberwood furniture in this article again. No citation or verification was ever included in the article, and the small amount of research I have done has provided conflicting results. Additionally, the placement of the information was awkward, as it was included in the "Harvest of Latex" section of the article. Once adequate source material is included, this information should be organized under a different section of the article, or a new section should be created for it. Richardsw (talk) 14:58, 20 June 2010 (UTC)

I removed this reference again. It was reincluded, again without any source material. Whoever added this back in, please include some source material when you do. Richardsw (talk) 17:54, 25 June 2010 (UTC)

The first removal was done in a manner typical of some vandals: it was by an anonymous user who left no edit summary, and removed other content too. Since it did not appear to be constructive, I reverted it.

Your re-removal left a {{main}} alone at the end of a section; {{main}} always names another article, and is normally used to introduce a short summary of that article. As such, it does not necessarily require a reference.

As a compromise, I have removed the {{main}} and placed the linked-to article in the "See also" section. --Redrose64 (talk) 12:52, 26 June 2010 (UTC)

Well, first: thanks for cleaning up after me, sorry about that! Secondly, I think the compromise we ended up with is the best instance. I'll try and pay a bit more attention and do it correctly next time, thanks for helping me out. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Richardsw (talk • contribs) 21:41, 26 June 2010

Rubber tree logs

Can you use the rubber tree logs in your intrior fire place?

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Seeds of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), an economically important tree because its sap-like extract (known as latex) is the primary source of natural rubber. The seeds themselves can be pressed to make rubber seed oil or used to feed livestock.Photo: Luis Fernández García

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