Sowing months
Mar–Apr, Jun
Sunlight
Full sun, extreme heat
Water
Almost none
Mature size
2–4 m
First harvest
Resin from year eight
Family
Burseraceae
Where it grows
ground, terrace
Good for
biodiversity, healing
Sow in
summer
Care
Grows from a cutting; never tap a wild plant.
A thorny desert shrub whose resin has been traded for millennia; now endangered.
Growing it
Grows from a cutting; never tap a wild plant.
What it is for
Traditional resin; a serious conservation planting for dry areas.