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Despite its better-known identification with gloves and condoms, latex starts its life cycle as a substance collected from Hevea brasiliensis, better known as the rubber tree. Vivètique in Arcadia, Calif., gets the natural-latex mattress cores primarily from its supplier in Sri Lanka and finishes them with a cover of quilted wool and cotton. "More than half of the inquiries we get are from consumers who don't want synthetic fire retardants in their mattresses," says Scott Carwile, who co-owns Vivètique with his brother Steve. "More people are doing their homework...
Next year, Forsgard says she will return to botany to work on Genus Hevea, the type of plant from which we get 98 percent of our natural rubber...
...Belem, mouth of the Amazon, the trekkers were treated to pep talks on the romance of the jungle, shown how to cut the bark of the hevea (rubber tree), and then pushed into the jungle. Disillusion came fast. The hevea did not grow in stands; sometimes the trees were miles apart. Dwellings were mostly mud huts which the men built themselves in tall forests through which the sunlight never entered. Flesh-eating piranha fish kept them from river baths. Snakes bit them. The atabrine that the U.S. sent down to combat malaria was stolen by middlemen...
Rubber used to grow on trees (Hevea brasiliensis): now it flowers in the imagination of would-be inventors all over the U.S. They cook strange messes on the kitchen stove, squeeze out plant juices in home laboratories, and set out for Washington bearing black or tawny samples. Last week's arrival was Dr. Glenn L. Casto, dentist of Spencer...
...Improve wild rubber production. Inferiority is not inherent, is caused by ignorant siringueiros indiscriminately tapping any or all of 14 different varieties of rubber tree, so that the bacia (caldron) produces a hybrid bolacha. Remedy: teach them to confine themselves to the Hevea brasiliensis and scientific tapping of trees...