Here is another special rare tropical fruit tree that can be grown at home in Costa Rica ... from the trunks of these trees to make – you guessed it – chicle, or chewing gum. The dried latex was ...

Valentine Caamal harvests sap from a chewing gum tree by slashing V-shaped channels ... s Yucatán Peninsula might not have heard of Juicy Fruit, Hubba Bubba or the Doublemint Twins, but their ...

It is the original “chewing gum tree” as the white latex sap of the tree called ‘chicle’ used to be the main ingredient in chewing gum. The industry now uses a less costly synthetic product. The fruit ...