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What is Rubber? Rubber is a sticky, elastic solid produced from a milky liquid called latex(胶乳，乳液), which has different properties than the sap found in trees. Although latex is found in the bark, roots, and stems, branches, leaves, and fruit of over 400 different plants and trees, the bulk is found, and extracted, from the inner bark of the branches, and from the trunk, of the rubber tree. Quite simply, it would not be cost-effective to extract the latex from rubber producing plants, such as the dandelion(蒲公英), the milkweed, and the sagebrush. Just visualize some poor soul laboring over one o