Sentences with phrase «rubber trees native»

At the time, this was sourced from the rubber trees native to the Amazon Rainforest.

There is a rubber tree native to the Belize mainland (Mayan name «yax - ha or «kiik - che», and in Spanish «hule»), but it is not related to the tree on Ambergris Caye.

Not exact matches

In order to lay cables underwater, somebody needed first to discover the only kind of rubber — gutta - percha, from a tree native to Malaysia — that could waterproof the wire effectively, and somebody else needed to invent a machine that could apply gutta - percha evenly to inconceivable lengths of cable.

Fox's research, funded by the National Science Foundation and NASA, was designed to test his theory that rubber trees, which are exotics from the South America, differ from native vegetation in that they suck up most of their water when the soil is the driest at the beginning of the monsoon season.

Because their experiments were cut short, he has set up new weather towers in Thailand and Cambodia to monitor how much water rubber trees absorb compared with native species.