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Crush a fresh leaf from the liquidambar (sweet gum) tree to release the aroma that is the key to its multi-faceted history. Gareth Evans' article summarises the tree's multi-faceted cultural history and that of the fragrant resin after which it is named. 



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'The Liquidambar Kaleidoscope'
​Herbs, 40.1 Mar. 2015.
Herbs, the journal of the Herbs Society, 
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Soap block with extract of liquidamber from Turkey. Presumably from the Anatolian 'Liquidambar orientalis'.
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Aztec glyphs representing '8000 cakes of liquidambar'. The right hand glyph of the two is a block of liquidambar resin used for incense. (Matrícula de Tributos, 16th century).


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