milky sap
White botanical fluid
Milky sap is the white or cream-colored fluid that oozes from certain plants when their stems, leaves, or bark are cut or damaged.
This latex-like substance, found in plants such as milkweed, dandelions, and rubber trees, often serves as a defense mechanism against herbivores and pathogens.
Some milky saps are commercially valuable—rubber comes from the milky sap of *Hevea brasiliensis*—while others are toxic or irritating to skin.
- latexMilky plant-derived polymer
- natural rubberElastic polymer from plants
- rubber treeLatex-producing tropical plant
- rubberElastic polymer from trees
- whiteAbsence of pigment
sticky · ooze · dandelion · milkweed · fig · spurge · drip · wound · stem · resin · dripping · viscous · poisonous · tropical · tapping · coagulate · opium · poison ivy
- rubbernatural rubber, rubber band, rubber trees, rubber boot, rubber glove
- plant defensesthorns, spines, trichomes, toxins, latex
- Sowthistles