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Hevea brasiliensis
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<p><i>Hevea brasiliensis</i>, the Pará rubber tree, <i>sharinga</i> tree, seringueira, or most commonly, rubber tree or rubber plant, is a <a href="/facts/Flowering_plant/E5eGYIvY">flowering plant</a> belonging to the spurge family, <a href="/facts/Euphorbiaceae/Go2K3M2l">Euphorbiaceae</a>, originally native to the <a href="/facts/Amazon_basin/kVk5XeHA">Amazon basin</a>, but is now <a href="/facts/Pantropical/29Y2gEhX">pantropical</a> in distribution due to <a href="/facts/Introduced_species/s0aHefyp">introductions</a>. It is the most economically important member of the genus <i><a href="/facts/Hevea/TeFIxTkk">Hevea</a></i> because the milky <a href="/facts/Latex/IPBJbKnd">latex</a> extracted from the tree is the primary source of <a href="/facts/Natural_rubber/CbsjJxhY">natural rubber</a>. </p>