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Antiaris is a tropical genus of latex
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Antiaris is a tropical genus of latex
LaTeX

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 producing evergreen
Evergreen

In botany, an evergreen plant is a plant having leaf all year round. This contrasts with deciduous plants, which completely lose their foliage for part of the year....
 tree
TREE

TREE was a Boston hardcore punk band formed in the summer of 1990. They were active in the Boston music scene until disbanding in 2002....
s in the Moraceae
Moraceae

Morus-alba.jpgMoraceae ? often called the mulberry family or fig family ? is a family of flowering plants comprising about 40 genera and over 1000 species....
 or fig family.

Some species include:

  • Antiaris africana Engl.
    Adolf Engler

    Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler was a Germany botanist. He is notable for his work on alpha taxonomy and Phytogeography, like Die Nat?rlichen Pflanzenfamilien , edited with Karl Anton Eugen Prantl....
    , an economic hardwood of Africa
    Africa

    Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km? including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area....
    , an African species which grows in the drier forest
    Forest

    File:Stara planina suma.jpgA forest is an area with a high density of trees. There are many definitions of a forest, based on various criteria....
    s of the tropics.
  • Antiaris toxicaria Lesch.
    Jean Baptiste Leschenault de la Tour

    Jean Baptiste Louis Claude Theodore Leschenault de la Tour was a France botanist and ornithologist.Leschenault de la Tour was chief botanist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australia between 1800 and 1803....
    , the upas tree of South East Asia with latex
    LaTeX

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     used to make an arrow poison
  • Antiaris welwitschii Engl., or bark-cloth tree