Ferula galbaniflua / Galbanum / Umbelliferae (Carrot family)

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Description

This gum resin was well known to the ancients and exudes from a smooth stemmed perennial with shining leaflets, few flowers and shiny seeds. The whole plant which originates from Persia and the Cape of Good Hope abounds with a milky juice which oozes from the joints of the older plants and hardens at base of the stem after being cut down. The odour of this resin is strong and peculiar but very aromatic due to its volatile oil, umbelliferine and galbaresino-tannol.

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• Finland