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Rubber trees plantation ecpr0115.jpg
Rubber trees plantation at Espírito Santo State, southeastern Brazil. Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree, sharinga tree, seringueira, or, most commonly, the rubber tree or rubber plant, is a tree belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae. It is the most economically important member of the genus Hevea because the milky latex extracted from the tree is the primary source of natural rubber.