Species of African plant commonly used for incense
Typical habitat (Giba River gorge in Ethiopia) with, at left, a flowering Boswellia papyrifera tree
Boswellia papyrifera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Plantae
Clade:
Tracheophytes
Clade:
Angiosperms
Clade:
Eudicots
Clade:
Rosids
Order:
Sapindales
Family:
Burseraceae
Genus:
Boswellia
Species:
B. papyrifera
Binomial name
Boswellia papyrifera
(Delile ex Caill.) Hochst., 1843
Synonyms[1]
Amyris papyrifera Delile ex Caill.
Boswellia occidentalis Engl.
Boswellia papyrifera, also known as the Sudanese frankincense,[2] is a species of flowering plant and frankincense that is native to Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan. The tree is cultivated in Ethiopia because of its valuable resin. The incense is characterized by a fresh lemon-pine scent[3] and is therefore highly esteemed. In Ethiopia where it is called itan zaf,[4] it comes in semi-translucent yellow tears. The gum resin of Boswellia papyrifera coming from Ethiopia, Sudan and eastern Africa is believed to be the main source of frankincense of antiquity.[5]
^"Boswellia papyrifera". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 24 September 2014.
^Äthiopischer Weihrauch (Ethiopian incense)
^"Ethiopian Oils and Resins". Archived from the original on 2017-02-16. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
^Agroforestry in Ethiopia Archived 2017-02-16 at the Wayback Machine, bottom of p. 3.
^Tucker, Arthur O. (October 1986). "Frankincense and myrrh". Economic Botany. 40 (4): 425–433. doi:10.1007/BF02859654. S2CID 12460227.
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