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Commiphora gileadensis

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Family: Burseraceae · Genus: Commiphora

Commiphora gileadensis

Petronella J.M. Pas · public_domain

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Commiphora gileadensis, the Arabian balsam tree, is a shrub species in the family Burseraceae growing in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, southern Oman, Sudan and in southeast Egypt where it may have been introduced. Other common names for the plant include balm of Gilead and Mecca myrrh, but this is due to historical confusion between several plants and the historically important expensive perfumes and drugs obtained from them.

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