Small genus of South American trees yielding latex.
1Patagonia's 'green' wetsuits use renewable natural rubber from hevea trees grown in compliance with Forest Stewardship Council standards.
2The formation of the coagulum of the hevea, or of real caoutchouc, is nevertheless much more rapid in contact with the air.
3Acids precipitate the caoutchouc from the milky juice of the euphorbiums, fig-trees, and hevea; they precipitate the caseum from the milk of animals.
4In going to the embarcadero, we caught on the trunk of a hevea* (* One of those trees whose milk yields caoutchouc.)
5This is Nature's clever scheme to spread the Hevea family.
6The Hevea tree grows sixty feet tall, and when full grown is eight or ten feet around.
7* (* The pellicles deposited by the milk of hevea, in contact with the atmospheric oxygen, become brown on exposure to the sun.