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Both liquidambar (sweet gum) resin and the feathers of the quetzal bird are found in the cloud forests of Central America ...
... and were prized by the Aztecs for use in ceremony and ritual.
(Images from the Florentine Codex, 16th century).
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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.




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'The Liquidambar Kaleidoscope'
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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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