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№ 204TreesGutta-Percha: The Tree Latex That Wired the World
A Southeast Asian tree whose tough, waterproof latex insulated the first undersea telegraph cables and connected the continents — and still fills root canals and cored the golf ball.
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№ 402TreesRubber: Latex, Tapping, and a Fungus Waiting Across an Ocean
A tree tapped daily for latex without harm — grown in vast Asian monocultures precisely because the leaf disease that would destroy them stayed in the Amazon.
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