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Labdanum

Dark, leathery, ambery gum from Mediterranean rockrose shrubs.

In pictures

Traditional / raw material

Greece · Resin

Photo credits (6)

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Cistus ladanifer, the Mediterranean shrub that yields labdanum. Haggeswood, CC BY 4.0
The Botafumeiro, Santiago de Compostela Cathedral, Spain. Luis Miguel Bugallo Sánchez (Lmbuga Commons)(Lmbuga Galipedia), CC BY-SA 3.0
Kemenyan, or benzoin resin (Styrax benzoin). Midori, CC BY-SA 3.0
Dragon's blood trees on Socotra, a source of the red resin. Rod Waddington from Kergunyah, Australia, CC BY-SA 2.0
Ailanthus triphysa, the tree that yields halmaddi. Forestowlet, CC0
Liquidambar orientalis, the source of Anatolian storax, in Turkey. Zeynel Cebeci, CC BY-SA 4.0