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After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, he was hired by the U.S. government to organize South American natives and resuscitate the rubber tapping industry, to counter Japanese control over natural rubber supplies in Asia...
With two Indian guides, Schultes explored the Amazon River, locating rubber trees. He spent the 14 years after the war living with the natives in the Amazon and continuing his research of plants...
Schultes draws praise from his colleagues primarily for his advancements in narcotics and rubber plant studies...
Currently, Schultes is devoting much of his time to writing his eighth book on botany which will deal primarily with the rubber trees. Using his drawerful of weatherbeaten notebooks, accumulated over decades of work in the tropics, he is attempting the first complete classification of the plant...
...says, he may never live to see the results of his experiments because it takes approximately eight years for a rubber tree to flower...