At ground level, leaves of the giant rubber tree at Construction House in Hobart's CBD press against the glass, visible to passers by. What they can't see is the plant grows up through the entire ...

A giant rubber tree over 100 years old in East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh is emerging as a tourist attraction after being declared by the Forest Department as the largest tree in the state.

In Colombia, rubber tree planting has increased tenfold over the last decade to 25,000 acres, a figure that could triple again by 2016. Its rubber harvest is projected to grow to 35,000 tons by ...

While plantation rubber trees are cut down within 30 years, the museum giant has stood the test of time. The tree, according to the records, is over 130 years old and it shows.

Most of its 10,000 inhabitants worked for a giant French rubber plantation, the Societe des Caoutchoucs d’Extreme-Orient, whose trees marched away row upon row, mile after mile, across the low ...

In Colombia, rubber-tree planting has increased tenfold over the past decade to 25,000 acres, a figure that could triple again by 2016. Last year’s harvest of 3,200 tons of rubber is projected ...