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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

India rubber tree in English is the name of a plant defined with Ficus elastica in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Urostigma elasticum (Roxburgh ex Hornemann) Miquel (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· London Journal of Botany (1847)
· Supplementum Horti botanici hafniensis (1819)
· Systematics Association Special Volume (1989)
· Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis (1844)
· Plant Systematics and Evolution (1987)
· FBI (1888)

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This sections includes definitions from the five kingdoms of living things: Animals, Plants, Fungi, Protists and Monera. It will include both the official binomial nomenclature (scientific names usually in Latin) as well as regional spellings and variants.

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