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Giant rubber tree Paredenya, Ceylon #IMG72

Roots of an India Rubber Tree at Peradeniya, Ceylon

This tree grows to a heighth of 120 feet and has a large spreading head. A channel is cut in the bark with a cutlass for the milk to flow and is caught in gourds. The average yield is three pints of milk. Which is dried in hollow wooden trays. When sufficiantly dry it is removed in strips and hung upon lins to harden.

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Date: Late 1800′s
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Location: Paredenya, Ceylon
This India-rubber trees (Ficus elastica) planted around 1833

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