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Henry Wickham was responsible for gathering 70,000 seeds from the rubber-bearing tree, Hevea brasiliensis, in the Manaus area of Brazil in 1876. He was almost single-handedly responsible for the collapse of the Amazon rubber boom - British owned plantations in Asia were much more efficient and outproduced Brazil.
External link
- Short biography (http://www.irrdb.com/IRRDB/NaturalRubber/History/HenryWickham.htm)
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