hevea

Enduring repeated scrapes with venomous snakes, violent death and horrific jungle-borne diseases, he emerged after weeks of toil with 70,000 hevea seeds, which he carefully dried and packed "between banana leaves to soak up excess oil," Mr. Jackson reports.

He Hit the Road, Found Rubber 2008

He dreamed of cultivating hevea trees outside the Amazon valley.

He Hit the Road, Found Rubber 2008

He dreamed of cultivating hevea trees outside the Amazon valley.

He Hit the Road, Found Rubber 2008

Taking hevea seeds out of the country was not illegal, but Wickham did not want to risk losing valuable time being held up by red tape.

He Hit the Road, Found Rubber 2008

Taking hevea seeds out of the country was not illegal, but Wickham did not want to risk losing valuable time being held up by red tape.

He Hit the Road, Found Rubber 2008

Enduring repeated scrapes with venomous snakes, violent death and horrific jungle-borne diseases, he emerged after weeks of toil with 70,000 hevea seeds, which he carefully dried and packed "between banana leaves to soak up excess oil," Mr. Jackson reports.

He Hit the Road, Found Rubber 2008

But the best rubber comes from -- from a plant, the hevea tree, which comes from -- which is native to Brazil.

Noble Obsession: Charles Goodyear, Thomas Hancock, and the Race to Unlock the Greatest Industrial Secret of the Nineteenth Century 2002

The most powerful of the rubber men—Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Paul Litchfield of Goodyear—focused on species of hevea.

One River Wade Davis 1996

Schultes had been walking slowly, collecting the odd specimen of hevea and informally surveying the latex-bearing trees along the route.

One River Wade Davis 1996

By chance the ship had arrived at the perfect time of year, and the silence of the forest at noon was broken everywhere by the sounds of exploding capsules of hevea fruits scattering seeds one hundred feet from the bases of the tall, silvery trees.

One River Wade Davis 1996