Frankincense Tree
Boswellia sacra · Burseraceae · 사크라유향나무
Look
- Leaves
- Odd-pinnate compound leaves made of 6 to 8 pairs of opposite leaflets and one terminal leaflet.
- Flowers
- Flowers about 7 mm across grow in axillary racemes, with five whitish-yellow petals, ten stamens and a yellow nectar disc (turning red as it matures).
- Fruit
- A capsule about 1 cm long holding 3 to 5 seeds.
- Bark
- Papery bark that peels in thin sheets.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native to northern Somalia, southeastern Yemen and southern Oman (Dhofar).
- Ecology
- Grows on limestone rocky slopes and in arid desert scrub, and is especially common on seaward mountain slopes where summer fog supplies moisture ('fog oases').