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.

The other two are a little more obscure. Frankincense and myrrh are the dried sap of trees, also known as resin. Frankincense comes from the deciduous trees of the genus Boswellia, and myrrh from ...

Half an hour's drive from the town there is a 20-acre (eight-hectare) plantation of myrrh trees and boswelia, the tree that produces frankincense. Hareth Hassan has been tending the trees for 15 ...

Trees that produce resin for frankincense and myrrh – used for thousands of years in healthcare, worship and trade – are facing collapsing populations.

Laboratory experiments suggest that the resin of certain trees of the Middle East, known commonly as the "myrrh" of the Christmas story, may have cholesterol-lowering properties. Laboratory ...

A reddish-brown resinous material, myrrh is the dried sap of the Commiphora Myrrh tree, which is native to Yemen, Somalia and the eastern parts of Ethiopia. A Syrian legend, later adopted by the ...

But what exactly is frankincense and myrrh? They are both gummy resins that are tapped from the inner bark of two different trees that grow in the Arabian peninsula, Africa and India. A resin to a ...

"We treasure these trees because their resin has many medicinal uses," he says. Image caption, The resin of the myrrh tree has medicinal uses - but, sold raw, goes for just $8 - or even $4 - per ...