Forest and Kim Starr, early detection specialists with the Maui Invasive Species Committee, confirmed her suspicions: the plant was rubber vine (Cryptostegia sp.). The Hawaii Pacific Weed Risk ...

Pronounced as "EYE-a-wasca," the ayahuasca vine is a tropical climbing ... many Americans grow as a house plant. The Machiguenga use certain species of rubber to make impermeable rain ponchos ...