caoutchouc lianas just strangled the trees with thousands of serpentine tendrils and transformed them into pyramids, buried with white flowers like snow.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The leaves are the most important part of it-for it is upon these the silkworms feed, spinning their fine threads out of the milky juice, which in its properties resembles the juice of the caoutchouc tree.
"The Boy Hunters"
Captain Mayne Reid
As all the natives on the estate were absent gathering caoutchouc, our operations were conducted with less difficulty than would otherwise have been the case.
"On the Banks of the Amazon"
W.H.G. Kingston