You can listen to this page as an audio file. Spices, Scents and Silk: Catalysts of world trade, James F Hancock, 2021. CABI. I first encountered James Hancock’s work at the World History Encyclopedia site (e.g. his...
Tag - frankincense
Nigel Chaffey
The hidden cost of frankincense
A while back we covered a paper in Annals of Botany on tapping frankincense for resin. The mapping of the canals in the tree promised to improve the efficieny of tapping. Now in Tree Physiology Mengistu et al. have a...
Alun Salt
Resin secretory structures and yield of frankincense
Frankincense, a gum-resin, has been tapped from Boswellia papyrifera trees for centuries but information on the resin secretory structures is virtually absent. Tolera et al. examine tangential and radial sections of...
botanyone
A Christmas Trilogy, Part 1
In lieu of the traditional collection of items in a monthly issue of the Annals of Botany, Mr P. Cuttings presents the following selection for your delectation, delight, distraction, diversion, etc, during this...
