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Hevea


hevea

(ˈhiːvjə) n (Plants) any tree of the South American euphorbiaceous genus Hevea, having a milky sap which provides rubber[C19: New Latin from native name hevé]
Thesaurus
Noun1.hevea - small genus of South American trees yielding latexHevea - small genus of South American trees yielding latex; "rubber trees are usually cultivated in plantations"genus Hevea, rubber treerosid dicot genus - a genus of dicotyledonous plantsEuphorbiaceae, family Euphorbiaceae, spurge family - a family of plants of order Geraniales
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hévéa

Hevea


Hevea

[′hē·vē·ə] (botany) The rubber tree genus of the order Euphoriales from which the largest volumes of latex are harvested for use in the manufacture of natural rubber.

Hevea

 

a genus of evergreen monoecious trees of the Euphorbiaceae family.

There are approximately 12 species of Hevea, found in the forests of tropical America. H. brasiliensis is the principal source of natural rubber; it grows wild in the damp tropical forests of the Amazon valley and is widely cultivated in tropical countries (most notably in Ceylon, the Malacca Peninsula, and the Greater Sunda Islands). The height of the tree is 30-40 m; the leaves are compound ternate and the blossoms small, unisexual, and gathered into paniculate inflorescences with capsular fruit. The seeds are oval and large (up to 3 cm) with a heavy brown casing, and quickly lose their germinating capacity. The milky sap of the plants contains the rubber, for which the trees are tapped from the age of 10-12 years. One tree may yield from 3-4 to 7.5 kg of rubber per year.

REFERENCES

Tekhnologiia rastitel’nogo kauchuka i guttaperchi. Moscow, 1944.
Zhukovskii, P. M. Kul’turnye rasteniia i ikh sorodichi, 2nd ed. Leningrad, 1964. Pages 760-63.
Siniagin, I. I. Tropicheskoe zemledelie. Moscow, 1968. Pages 245-53.

S. S. MORSHIKHINA

Hevea


  • noun

Synonyms for Hevea

noun small genus of South American trees yielding latex

Synonyms

  • genus Hevea
  • rubber tree

Related Words

  • rosid dicot genus
  • Euphorbiaceae
  • family Euphorbiaceae
  • spurge family
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