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• n  much-branched subshrub with silvery leaves and small white flowers of Texas and northern Mexico; cultivated as a source of rubber

• That will make guayule production look like peanuts.
• When Depression flooded world rubber markets, guayule production dropped to a mere 3,000 tons.
• Mexican tires are "made of guayule rubber, with small amounts of Brazilian crude.

• Parthenium argentatum

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  Bridgestone Americas Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Bridgestone Corp., has completed its Agro Operations Guayule Research Farm in Eloy, Ariz. The research farm will supply guayule biomass for rubber production at the company’s BioRubber Process Research Center, which is currently under construction in Mesa, Ariz.
  Oct. 14, 2013 - TruckingInfo.com