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Henry Ridley and rubber tree, Singapore
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Filename: p042 - 006618LA20120217-006 Ridley rubber.jpg
Size: 3304 x 4788 (5.1MB)
Date: 4th February 2015
Credit: © The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Copyright Status: Copyrighted Work
Owner URL: http://www.kew.org/
© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Henry Ridley and rubber tree, Singapore
Extension of original cutting on an old Para rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis - Henry Ridley ( Rubber Ridley ) and rubber tree, tapped for latex. HNR/1/2/6/3 Henry Ridley was director of the Singapore Botanic Garden from 1888 to 1911. Through his expertise and ecouragement, and with rubber trees that had been trees sent from Kew in 1877, the Malaysian rubber plantation industry was established. Today most of the worlds rubber comes from plantations in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia
Filename: p042 - 006618LA20120217-006 Ridley rubber.jpg
Media ID 10631016
© The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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