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Castilla elastica, the Panama rubber tree, is a tree native to the tropical areas of Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 and Central America
Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
 which was, in pre-Columbian
Pre-Columbian

The pre-Columbian era incorporates all archaeology of the Americas in the history of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the Americas continents....
 times, the principal source of latex
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 among the Mesoamerican peoples. The latex gathered from Castilla elastica was converted into usable rubber
Rubber

Natural rubber is an elastomer?an Elasticity_ hydrocarbon polymer?that was originally derived from a milky colloidal suspension, or latex , found in the sap of some plants....
 by mixing the latex sap with the juice of the morning glory
Morning Glory

Morning Glory is a pre-Code United States drama film which tells the story of an eager but unstable would-be actress whose good looks draw more attention than her acting....
 species Ipomoea alba
Ipomoea alba

Ipomoea alba, sometimes called the moonflower or moon vine, is a species of night-blooming Ipomoea, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the New World, from northern Argentina north to Mexico and Florida....
 which, conveniently, is typically found in the wild as a vine climbing Castilla elastica.






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Castilla elastica, the Panama rubber tree, is a tree native to the tropical areas of Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of Mexico....
 and Central America
Central America

Central America is a central geography region of the Americas. It is the southernmost, isthmus portion of the North American continent, which connects with South America on the southeast....
 which was, in pre-Columbian
Pre-Columbian

The pre-Columbian era incorporates all archaeology of the Americas in the history of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the Americas continents....
 times, the principal source of latex
LaTeX

LaTeX is a document markup language and Word processor for the TeX typesetting program. Within the typesetting system, its name is styled as ....
 among the Mesoamerican peoples. The latex gathered from Castilla elastica was converted into usable rubber
Rubber

Natural rubber is an elastomer?an Elasticity_ hydrocarbon polymer?that was originally derived from a milky colloidal suspension, or latex , found in the sap of some plants....
 by mixing the latex sap with the juice of the morning glory
Morning Glory

Morning Glory is a pre-Code United States drama film which tells the story of an eager but unstable would-be actress whose good looks draw more attention than her acting....
 species Ipomoea alba
Ipomoea alba

Ipomoea alba, sometimes called the moonflower or moon vine, is a species of night-blooming Ipomoea, native to tropical and subtropical regions of the New World, from northern Argentina north to Mexico and Florida....
 which, conveniently, is typically found in the wild as a vine climbing Castilla elastica. The rubber produced by this method found several uses, including most notably, the manufacture of balls for the Mesoamerican ballgame
Mesoamerican ballgame

The Mesoamerican ballgame was a sport with ritual associations played for over 3000 years by the pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica. The sport had different versions in different places during the millennia, and a modern version of the game, Ulama game, is still played in a few places by the local Native American ....
.

The Aztec
Aztec

Aztec is a term used to refer to certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl and who achieved political and military dominance over large parts of Mesoamerica in the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, a period referred to as the Late post-Classic period in Mesoamerican chronology....
 (Nahuatl) word for rubber was ulli / olli, from which their word for the ballgame derived (ullamaliztli), and also their name for the ancient people they associated with the origin of the ballgame, the Olmec
Olmec

The Olmec were an ancient Pre-Columbian people living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day Mexican state of Veracruz and Tabasco....
s (olmeca: "rubber people"). The Nahuatl word for the tree of Castilla elastica is olicuáhuitl; in Spanish it is known as palo de hule.

Subspecies

  • Castilla elastica ssp. costaricana (Liebm.) C. C. Berg
  • Castilla elastica ssp. elastica (Castilloa rubber)


See also

  • guayule
    Guayule

    Parthenium argentatum, commonly known as Guayule , is a shrub in the family Asteraceae, native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, in the states of New Mexico, Texas, Zacatecas, Coahuila, Chihuahua San Luis Potosi, Nuevo Leon, and Tamaulipas....
     - another source of latex utilized by the pre-Columbian Mesoamericans
  • Para rubber tree
    Para rubber tree

    The Par? rubber tree , often simply called rubber tree , is a tree belonging to the family Euphorbiaceae and the most economically important member of the genus Hevea....
     - the main source of modern commercial natural latex