The unique nature does not cease to surprise the person. So, the most usual tree can give not only bark, wood, edible fruits, but also milk which is used in the industry and in life.
Hevea
"The dairy tree" - an evergreen hevea - grows today only in Southeast Asia though earlier it was widespread also in the territory of South America. From its juice similar to milk, do rubber which in lacteal juice about 45%. Get milk in the old manner – by circular cuts of a trunk on which liquid flows down in small bowls. Wood of a hevea is very much appreciated, products from it are strong and durable, however it is possible to cut trees only on special permissions and only those which are close to natural death.
Natural rubber protects wood from rotting processes, it actively pushes away moisture therefore to masters happens extremely difficult to make of product wood which demand pasting.
Coconut palm
Coconut palm - a tree of family palm which is quite often called a life tree, a coconut palm - one of the few plants which are used by the person completely: both bark, and foliage, and fruits, and roots. The tree is very widespread in tropics on all planet. Fruits of a palm tree are cocoes in which fibrous stone fruit liquid, by the form similar to milk is formed. Further it hardens and turns into so-called coconut oil. To taste and food properties neither milk, nor oil remind a rural product. Unlike a hevea the product of a coconut palm is eaten, used as a part of natural cosmetic medicines, oil is applied at soap production.
Brosimum
Brosimum useful (Latin Brosimum utile) – a tree which really gives a milk. It is also possible to meet this tree under the name brosium galaktodendron or galaktodendron useful (Galactodendron). Inhabitants and guests of Central and South America can enjoy this miracle of the nature as the dairy tree exactly here grows. Surprisingly, fruits of this tree are not eaten, and from a trunk of a plant extract lacteal juice. For this purpose do special cuts and pick milk in capacity. For an hour it is possible to receive up to one liter of nutritious viscous liquid. Not only that juice is not dangerous and is not poisonous, on the tastes and on nutrition values it is similar to cow's milk.
Brosimuma juice is rather tasty and useful, it locals because in the conditions of tropical climate it can be stored the whole week raise babies.
Of course, when hardening, milk is more similar to wax, than to oil. But application was found also for it – do candles and chewing gums of the formed substance.