Current rates of tapping frankincense -- which according to the Bible was given to the baby Jesus by the three wise men at Christmas and which will feature in thousands of Nativity plays in coming ...

Frankincense comes from the Boswellia sacra tree, which grows mainly in the Horn of Africa. The number of trees that produce the fragrant resin could decline by 90 percent in the next 50 years. The ...

The world may still have gold and myrrh, but it's quite possible that frankincense could become a thing of the past, given ecological pressures on the arid lands where it grows in Ethiopia. The ...

Frankincense has been cherished for thousands of years, utilized in cultural and religious ceremonies as well as cooking and creating aromatics. Frankincense resin comes from the dried sap of ...

Mention frankincense, and it’s hard not to instantaneously think of Christmas. Cited in the story of the birth of Christ in the Bible’s Book of Matthew, it was one of the precious gifts (alongside ...

Frankincense sounds ancient—and that’s exactly why it’s trending again. Once reserved for religious rituals and traditional ...

ERIGAVO, Somalia – In a tradition dating to Biblical times, men rise at dawn in the rugged Cal Madow mountains of Somaliland in the Horn of Africa to scale rocky outcrops in search of the prized sap ...

Frankincense is harvested by wounding the bark of trees and collecting the resin that is subsequently released from the wound, a process known as tapping. Tapping is carried out at several spots along ...

Annals of Botany, Vol. 111, No. 1 (January 2013), pp. 61-68 (8 pages) • Background and Aims Frankincense, a gum-resin, has been tapped from Boswellia papyrifera trees for centuries. Despite the ...

In this Thursday, Aug. 4, 2016 photo, sap runs out of a frankincense tree near Mader Moge, Somaliland, a breakaway region of Somalia. The last wild frankincense forests on Earth are under threat as ...