Talk:Henry Wickham

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[1] says that "The evildoer was an English botanist named Alexander Wickham. Tradition has it that this British gent smuggled some 70,000 seeds of hevea brasiliensis out of the country saying they were for Queen Victoria's Kew Gardens in England, and soon plantations in the British colonies in South-East Asia where producing rubber more cheaply than Brazil."

Which is correct?--203.45.119.219 04:21, 30 July 2006 (UTC)

The area Sir Henry Wickman collect the seeds, was near Vila Boim at the left bank of Tapajós River, few miles from the city of Santarém in Satate of Pará, not Manaus area