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Castilla elastica

Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Moraceae
Genus: Castilla
Species: C. Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its For other meanings see Rosales (disambiguation. Rosales is an order of Flowering plants including nine families Moraceae is a family of Flowering plants commonly known as the mulberry or fig family Castilla (sometimes incorrectly spelled Castilloa) is a tree Genus belonging to the family Moraceae found native in Central America elastica
Binomial name
Castilla elastica
Sessé

Castilla elastica, the Panama rubber tree, is a tree native to the tropical areas of Mexico and Central America which was, in pre-Columbian times, the principal source of latex among the Mesoamerican peoples. Martín Sessé y Lacasta (1751 in Baraguás, Aragon, Spain &mdash October 4, 1808, Madrid) was a Spanish botanist who relocated The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. The pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences LaTeX (ˈleɪtɛ Mesoamerica or Meso-America (Mesoamérica is a Region extending approximately from central Mexico to Honduras and Nicaragua, defined The latex gathered from Castilla elastica was converted into usable rubber by mixing the latex sap with the juice of the morning glory species Ipomoea alba which, conveniently, is typically found in the wild as a vine climbing Castilla elastica. Morning glory is a common name for over 1000 Species of Flowering plants in the family Convolvulaceae, belonging to the following genera Ipomoea alba, sometimes called the moonflower (but not to be confused with the other species also called Moonflower) or moon vine, is a The rubber produced by this method found several uses, including most notably, the manufacture of balls for the Mesoamerican ballgame. The Mesoamerican ballgame was a Sport with ritual associations played for over 3000 years by the Pre-Columbian peoples of Mesoamerica.

The Aztec (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 Olmecs (olmeca: "rubber people"). Aztec is a term used to refer to certain ethnic groups of central Mexico, particularly those groups who spoke the Nahuatl language and who achieved political Nahuatl ( is a group of related languages and dialects of the Aztecan or Nahuan branch of the Uto-Aztecan language family The Olmec were an ancient Pre-Columbian people living in the Tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in what are roughly the modern-day states The Nahuatl word for the tree of Castilla elastica is olicuáhuitl[1]; in Spanish it is known as palo de hule.

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