A guest post by George L Mathew
The rubber tree known as hevea brasiliensis originially came from the Brazilian rainforest. This is the most commercially exploited tree for extracting rubber. Many other plants have sap which is similar to rubber sap, but none of these have been used commercially to date. Whenever the price of rubber goes up, scientists come up with many possibilities for using other plants in a commercial application for extracting rubber.
George Mathew provides a snapshot of the latex industry from his perspective as the director of Coco Latex Exports, our Dunlop latex supplier.
