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    Palaquium gutta is a tree in the family Sapotaceae. The specific epithet gutta is from the Malay word getah meaning 'sap or latex'. Palaquium gutta grows...
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    Gutta-percha is a tree of the genus Palaquium in the family Sapotaceae. The name also refers to the rigid, naturally biologically inert, resilient, electrically...
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    several seeds. Palaquium habitats are coastal, lowland mixed dipterocarp, swamp, and montane forests. Some species, for example Palaquium gutta, are well known...
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    Synsepalum dulcificum is also placed in the Sapotaceae. Trees of the genus Palaquium (gutta-percha) produce an important latex with a wide variety of uses. The...
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    considered to be a taxonomic synonym of Palaquium gutta (Hook.) Burck, and a homonym of its basionym Isonandra gutta Hook..) In 1879, Milne-Edwards was the...
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  • ficus indica Origanum majorana ~ Marjoram Origanum vulgare ~ Oregano Palaquium gutta Papaver bracteatum Papaver paeoniflorum Papaver setigerum Papaver somniferum...
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    to tap. Some produce other desirable materials, for example gutta-percha (Palaquium gutta) and chicle from Manilkara species. Others that have been commercially...
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    standard filling material is gutta-percha, a natural polymer prepared from latex from the percha tree (Palaquium gutta). The standard endodontic technique...
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  • Bushwick Bill Gutta på tur, a Norwegian travel-TV show Gutta-percha, trees of the genus Palaquium and the rigid natural latex produced from the sap of these...
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  • Mexican Buckeye Sapotaceae (Sapodilla family) Argania spinosa, Argan Palaquium, Gutta-percha Sideroxylon, Tambalacoque ("dodo tree") etc. Family Simaroubaceae...
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    readily applied to wire made its appearance in 1842. Gutta-percha, the adhesive juice of the Palaquium gutta tree, was introduced to Europe by William Montgomerie...
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    was required. A solution presented itself with gutta-percha, a natural rubber from the Palaquium gutta tree, after William Montgomerie sent samples to...
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  • 30 mm (1 in) in diameter. The latex has been used as a low-quality gutta-percha. Palaquium obovatum is native to India, Indo-China and Malesia. Its habitat...
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    introduced gutta-percha, the adhesive juice of the Palaquium gutta tree, to Europe. Michael Faraday and Wheatstone soon discovered the merits of gutta-percha...
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  • used in cooking. The latex is used to make gutta-percha. The timber is harvested and traded as nyatoh. Palaquium hexandrum has been assessed as near threatened...
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  • Indonesia Native to Tropical Peat Swamp Forests Latex Karet Oblong (palaquium gutta) Tropics Latex Lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea ) Northern peatlands...
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  • of several tropical trees of the sapotaceous genera Palaquium and Payena, especially Palaquium gutta. First known use was in 1845, from Malay getah perca...
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  • Litsea megacarpa Mangifera indica Melanorrhoea Nephelium lappaceum Palaquium gutta Pometia pinnata Quercus Shorea bracteolata Shorea leprosula Shorea...
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    import Hevea brasiliensis to Guinea, Ivory Coast and Dahomey, and Palaquium gutta to Gabon. From 1894 to 1897 Bourdarie was secretary general of the...
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    India and Ceylon, including Para rubber (Hevea brasiliensis), Gutta percha (Palaquium gutta), Panama rubber (Castilea elastica), Balatta (Mimusops globesa)...
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    as Shorea platyclados, Agathis kinabaluensis, Lithocarpus lucidus, Palaquium gutta, Shorea smithiana, Prainea limpato and Quercus kinabaluensis. Kerangas...
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    Ochthocosmus africanus Octomeles sumatrana Ongokea gore Pachylobus barteri Palaquium gutta Pancovia laurentii Parinari kerstingii Parishia Parkia bicolor Pithecellobium...
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    including Lithocarpus havilandii, Canarium species, Litsea species, Palaquium gutta, Adinandra clemensiae, Lophopetalum beccarianum, Timonius flavescens...
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    resins (damar, Agathis dammara; jelutong bukit, Dyera costulata, gutta-percha, Palaquium spp.); wild honey and beeswax (important in trade but often unreported);...
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  • Oxytenanthera bourdillonii Gamble Poaceae 359 Palaquium bourdillonii Brandis Sapotaceae 360 Palaquium ravii Sasidh. & Vink Sapotaceae 361 Paphiopedilum...
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    used to make golf balls and is similar to gutta-percha, made from the latex of the "getah perca" tree Palaquium. This is also used as an insulator, particularly...
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    degraded in salt water. The solution came with gutta-percha, a natural latex from trees of the genus Palaquium in the Far East. It sets harder than rubber...
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  • Indian Forester (1913), Vol. XXXIX, No. 6. 25. Analysis of Gutta made from latex of Palaquium ellipticum by Puran Singh. Indian Forester (1913), Vol. XXXIX...
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    with Singapore such as camphor (from Dryobalanops aromatica spp), gutta percha (Palaquium spp), aloe woods, Catechu, and Jelutong (Dyera costulata). Other...
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