madagascar rubber vine

madagascar rubber vine
noun or madagascar rubber
Usage: usually capitalized M
: a woody vine (Cryptostegia madagascariensis) with large whitish or pink flowers that is native to Madagascar and is grown in the tropics as an ornamental and for its milky juice that yields rubber

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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