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Para Rubber
£3
Sponsor one or more Rubber trees and help fight deforestation in the Amazon. Each tree plays a vital role in the biodiversity of the rainforest. When you protect a tree you receive a special certificate via email or through the post. View its location in your Cool Earth account. Help fight climate change and keep this tree standing.
- Latin name
- Hevea brasiliensis
- Height
- 30-40m
- Girth
- up to 1 m
- CO2 stored (tonnes)
- 12
- Flower
- Flowers have no petals and are bright yellow.
- Fruit
- Each fruit has 3 to 4 seeds, released when it falls to the ground and splits.
- Location
- Usually found below 600m altitude.
The latex of the Para Rubber tree is one of the most useful materials ever produced and is the primary source of natural rubber. It's found in vessels which spiral up the tree. An incision is made into the tree just deep enough to collect the sap which runs into buckets. The process is called rubber tapping.
