Oldest Rubber Tree of Malaya

Oldest Rubber Tree of Malaya (18 September 2016)


The oldest rubber tree of Malaya (GPS: 4.77451, 100.94097) is also one of the oldest rubber trees in Malaysia. It stands by the roadside at Jalan Tun Razak in Kuala Kangsar, Perak. It was planted when the country was still called British Malaya.

This rubber tree is one of nine seedlings brought over from Brazil by the English botanist H.N. Ridley (Henry Nicholas Ridley) in 1877, and is one of the two oldest rubber trees still standing in Malaysia. I visited it along with the other heritage sites in Bukit Chandan.

This rubber tree helped usher in the rubber plantation era of Malaysia in the late 19th and early 20th Century, making Malaysia the world's largest producer of rubber at one time. This was made possible by the encouragement of Sir Hugh Low, the Resident of Perak, who planted several in his garden in Kuala Kangsar.

The Oldest Rubber Tree of Malaya is on the Map of Kuala Kangsar

View of the Oldest Rubber Tree of Malaya from Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Kangsar. (18 September 2016)


Cups for collecting latex and hand-wind press for rubber sheets displayed under the rubber tree. (18 September 2016)


Oldest Rubber Tree of Malaya (31 January, 2006)

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