Frankincense comes from the dried sap of Boswellia trees, while myrrh comes from the lifeblood of the Commiphora. Extracting the sap is a tenuous dance—you must injure the tree without killing it.

A long-lost tree species has new life after scientists planted a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s during an archaeological dig.

A long-lost tree species has new life after scientists planted a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the 1980s during an archaeological dig.

They also make shallow cuts on the tree trunks and branches to stimulate the production of myrrh resin. Mr Hassan works closely with Ambia Osman, an officer from the Kenya Forests Service.

A frankincense tree (‘Boswellia sacra’) in Oman. | Mauro Raffaelli, Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 3.0 Extracting the sap for frankincense and myrrh is essentially the same process: Harvesters ...

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