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Dragon's Blood

Deep red resin from Dracaena trees and from the fruit of Daemonorops rattan palms. In Sumatra and Kalimantan the rattan resin is known as jernang.

In pictures

Shrinivas Sugandhalaya (Satya)

India · Bamboo-core stick

Traditional / raw material

Yemen · Resin

Photo credits (8)

Photos were resized, converted to WebP and may be cropped for display. Each keeps its original license.

Dragon's blood trees on Socotra, a source of the red resin. Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Dracaena cinnabari trees, Socotra Island. Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Incense sticks burning beside brass pots in India. A general illustration. 4174332, CC0
A censer monument, a symbol of Oman, in Muscat. patano, CC BY-SA 3.0
Kemenyan, or benzoin resin (Styrax benzoin). Midori, CC BY-SA 3.0
Ailanthus triphysa, the tree that yields halmaddi. Forestowlet, CC0
Cistus ladanifer, the Mediterranean shrub that yields labdanum. Haggeswood, CC BY 4.0
Liquidambar orientalis, the source of Anatolian storax, in Turkey. Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0