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Ficus produces natural latex. The entire plant or leaf isn't latex! What is left from this process in the fake leaf is a mixture of latex sap and processed lig
by exasperaited 10mo ago
Ficus produces natural latex. The entire plant or leaf isn't latex!
What is left from this process in the fake leaf is a mixture of latex sap and processed lignin, I think. It's certainly not only latex.
- jaggederest 10mo agoRight, but if you process it with baking soda it coagulates the latex into the shape of a leaf with some strengthening fiber in it, which is approximately the exact thing you'd do with molded fiber-reinforced latex