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Springtime at Mount Level...Triviola
I could use a few extra degrees of warmth but the sun is out so I am not complaining...onto the question:
A secretion from this tree often is used for medicinal and pharmaceutical preparations and it is used for adhesives, incense, perfuming, powders and soaps. Of what tree do I refer?
Tom
Re: Springtime at Mount Level...Triviola
Eucalyptus ? Not sure of spelling.
Nice guess...but no.
Re: Springtime at Mount Level...Triviola
IIRC, it's known as Chandan in Gujrati (India). Nice to have underfoot.
Can of Worms...with hint
I may have opened a can-o-worms here. I'm now thinking that other trees might also fit the description. Sandalwood, in this case, fits to some degree but the bi-products are obtained differently so technically sandalwood is incorrect.
But to steer the question in the right direction I will hint that the tree I seek is a North American tree.
Tom
Oh my, Here I sit...
Pineing over a answer to this question.
Camphor???
Uhhh...nope.
Again...a nope.
Re: Springtime at Mount Level...Triviola
I'm thinking your thinking of those trees the Gummy Bears frequent?
Bill, who lives in the land of the Ewocks
Are you looking for a sassy reply to this one?
Re: Can of Worms...with hint
In that case would it get you across the lake?
My opinion is that we
don't know Jack about this evergreen and we can take that to the Bank.
Bill Wins the Golden Uni! Answer
Bill wins a freshly cosmolined golden uni for coming up with the Humpday answer of Sweetgum!
A tip o' the WC cap to you sir!
Tom
I can not tell a lie
Thanks for the uni Thomas, but it seems that my conscience has to send it back. I was thinking of Gum trees in general and not specifically the Sweetgum. I seem to remember ('seem to remember' dang, I should have been a politician) that most all of the trees generally classified as gum trees have that sap and can/is used in a similar manner.
I think some credit has to be given to the Jack Pine response too. I don't think that I have ever seen a natural substance sticker than Jack Pine Sap. I have seen chain saws gummed up to the point of stopping upon hitting a pocket of sap. The Indigenous Populations of the north country used the sap as a glue and medicinal purposes. Oh lord I just had the image of the sap being used instead of Amodium AD (sp?).
Bill, a former North Country Boy.