The wrapping job was neat, with nicely folded narrow strips, and the stump was coated in resin, the tree sap Egyptians poured over bodies as a preservative.
Burmese amber is the fossilized resin of trees, possibly from Metasequoia, a species of redwood, from the Middle Cretaceous period (about 99 million years ago).
Mystical and medicinal properties have been attributed to amber, which is the petrified resin of trees from primeval forests felled by natural disasters 40 million years ago.
Frankincense, coveted both for its alleged ability to regenerate cells and for its Biblical prominence, is derived from the resin of trees that grow only in the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.
Spend time in German Wikipedia, and you find jazz musicians like Thelonious Monk with articles far longer than those written in their own language; you may also come upon odd areas of deep interest, like "pecherei," the extraction of resin from trees — no English equivalent provided — and 15 different tools needed for the job.
This is to avoid situations as occurred in Kenya where Acacia turkanensis and Acacia scabrifolia are of urgent concern as a result of indiscriminate harvesting without any regard to conservation, or in another case, the deforestation in the habitats of gum and gum resin-producing tree species in Somalia (Wren 2009).
There are actually many historical forms of turpentine, all made from the resin of trees.
Resins and tree saps used in antiquity figure in his complex recipe.
Further, we examined the growth performance of resin-tapped trees in contrast to the performance of non-tapped trees.
Forests consist largely of such hardwoods as teak and timber- and resin-producing trees of the Dipterocarpaceae family.
