The growing environment and history of rubber trees
The Brazilian rubber tree is called "Hevea" by locals in the Brazilian Amazon. The term Hevea was coined by French botanist Aublet in 1775 when he studied the plants of Guyana. Hevea was formally established by Muell in 1799, of which three-leaf rubber was its representative species. The rubber trees originated in the Amazon forest were transplanted to Kew Gardens in the UK in 1873, 22 three-leaf rubber trees were transported to Singapore in 1877, then to the Malay Peninsula in 1898, and introduced to China in 1904.