myrrha

Myrrh (Comniphora myrrha) is native to the area around the Red Sea and used as a preservative for wine and in embalming of the dead.

Brigitte Mars: Herbal Holiday Traditions 2009

Balsamodendron myrrha, which produces the myrrh of commerce, has

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Modern authorities declare the frankincense-tree (_Boswellia thurifera_) to be still a native of Hadramaut; [968] and there is no doubt that the myrrh-tree (_Balsamodendron myrrha_) also grows there.

History of Phoenicia George Rawlinson 1857

Omumbiri is the local name for the resin from the Commiphora wildii tree, a relative of the Commiphora myrrha tree that produces myrrh.

Now Smell This Robin 2010

Myrrh (Comniphora myrrha) is native to the area around the Red Sea and used as a preservative for wine and in embalming of the dead.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Brigitte Mars 2009

Myrrh (Comniphora myrrha) is native to the area around the Red Sea and used as a preservative for wine and in embalming of the dead.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

O DOMINE IESU, adoro te in sepulcro positum, myrrha et aromatibus conditum.

Catholic Church Conservation 2008

For thousands of years, several native tree species have provided the raw materials for some of the Horn of Africa’s most important commodities, including frankincense (from Boswellia sacra in Somalia, Yemen and Oman, and B. frereana in Somalia), myrrh (from the widespread Commiphor myrrha and C. guidottii in Somalia and eastern Ethiopia) and dragon’s blood or cinnabar (from Dracaena cinnabari, EN found on Socotra).

Biological diversity in the Horn of Africa 2008

Dcdi ce in fcrdus ihS puli, ut fufcitarc tcrram, & potIidcr homo, myrrha -, minica intra C

Diurnale Noviomense. ad usum regalis ecclesiæ S. Quintini accommodatum. Pars hiemalis (æstiva). 1774