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Competitive Rubber Plants*

Nature volume 153, pages 212–215 (1944)Cite this article

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FAR more plants contain rubber than is generally realized, but, few contain enough to make extraction worth while. For example, the dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) is typical of the plants in Great Britain which, on bruising, yield a latex or milky fluid containing rubber; but the milk contains much more resin than rubber, and the latter only amounts to about 0·2 per cent of the plant.

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  1. Superintendent of Research, London Advisory Committee for Rubber Research (Ceylon and Malaya),

    G. MARTIN

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MARTIN, G. Competitive Rubber Plants*. Nature 153, 212–215 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/153212a0

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