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C W Anderson with Cannonball tree, Couroupita guianensis photographed at the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown
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C W Anderson with Cannonball tree, Couroupita guianensis photographed at the Botanical Gardens, Georgetown

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 world's rubber comes from plantations in Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia
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