Eucommia is a valuable economic tree species unique to China and an important collagen plant with the widest application in the world. The leaves, barks and peels of Eucommia are rich in a kind of white silky substance - Eucommia gum. The discovery of the unique "rubber-plastic duality" of eucommia gum has opened up the application field of eucommia gum. Its comprehensive development and utilization has attracted extensive attention from the relevant national departments.
The seedlings of eucommia tree can be used to extract rubber, and the age of the tree increases to 10-15 years, and each hectare can produce more than 270 kilograms of rubber. The rubber content of eucommia tree is as follows: the dry bark contains 11% to 20% rubber; the dried fruit with kernel contains 12% rubber; the dry leaf contains 4% to 6% rubber; the old fine branch dry bark contains 10% rubber.
Eucommia gum is one of the natural rubber, produced from the eucommia tree belonging to the family Eucommiaceae, which is a specialty of China. In addition to wood, the leaves, roots, skin and seeds of the tree contain gum.
China's largest eucommia base is located in the Qinling Mountains in the territory of Liuyang County, *** there are 130 million plants, 580,000 acres of high-quality eucommia resources. The unique natural environment of the Great Qinling Mountains provides a good breeding ground for the growth of this rare and ancient tree.
Liuyang County Jiamu Eucommia Industry Co., Ltd. is a collection of Eucommia technology research and development. Product development. Market development and base construction in one of the agricultural industrialization science and technology demonstration enterprise, is the national science and technology ministry. The Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Finance Technology Innovation Fund key support enterprises. It is also the owner of the technology to fill many technical gaps and the development technology of eucommia, and is the backbone and leading enterprise in this field in China.
Zhangjiajie Cili County has nearly 20,000 acres of eucommia forests, which is a large-scale eucommia plantation built under the guidance of Soviet experts in the early liberation period, and is also one of the world-famous eucommia plantations, and is known as the "hometown of eucommia".