Product	Origin:	Description:
Amber	Yellow Amber is found on the beach of the Baltic Sea, partly also dug and fished in coast area. The main origin is the area Kaliningrad.	Yellow Amber is found on the beach of the Baltic Sea, partly also dug and fished in coast area. The main origin is the area Kaliningrad.
Benzoin Siam	The resin is mainly produced in the countries Laos, Vietnam and Thailand by grazing the bark of a trunk of Styrax benzoides and Styrax tonkinensis.	Gum Benzoin Siam is an aromatic resin (cinnamon odour), which is dealt in outer red-brownish, inner white pieces, which have shapes like almonds
Benzoin Sumatra	The resin is produced in Indonesia (Java and Sunda Islands) by grazing the bark of a trunk of Styrax benzoin and Styrax sumatranus.	Gum Benzoin Sumatra is an aromatic resin, which is collected in pieces, which have shapes like almonds and are reddish-brown. But you can also buy "Block Benzoin" which is often dealt in little pieces together with other resins.
Colophony	Colophony is a natural resin that is derived from the crude resin of conifers. There are the following kinds: Balsamic resin : the distillation residue of turpentine oil	The resin is brittle and transparent, depending on the quality the colour differs from light yellow, red to dark brown. The letter mentioned after the quality description indicate the colour of the quality
Elemi	The resin is produced on the Philippines, mainly on the island Lucon, by notching the trunk of the approximately 13-15 m tall tree Canarium luconicum of the family Barseraceae	Elemi is a very aromatic, yellowish-white, paste-like resin.
Galbanum	Galbanum is the voluntarily exuding gum-resin or it is derived by progressive cutting away of the stalk just above the root. This dried in latex comes mainly from the umbellifers of the genus Ferula, especially Ferula galbaniflua, from Northern Iran	Like Asafoetida, Gum Galbanum is dealt in irregular round, transparent brownish-yellow to greenish-yellow, often sticky grains (in granis) and shapeless, greenish-brown, easily softable masses that often include parts of the family plant (in massa), as well.
Gum Asafoetida	This gum-resin is produced in Iran and Afghanistan. It is the dried in latex which is derived from the large, turnip-shaped roots of some umbellifers (Ferula asafoetida, Ferula nartex etc.).	The gum-resin is dealt in loose or sticky grains (in granis) or in larger lumps (in massis). The outside is grey to violet-brown. The fracture is white, then goes very quickly red and then bit by bit brown. It smells strongly like garlic, the taste is bitter and hot
Mastic	The resin is exclusively produced on the island Chios by grazing the bark of the trunk of Pistacia lentiscus	Gum Mastix is an aromatic resin which is mostly dealt in yellowish pieces in the form of tears of approx. 2 mm to approx. 8 mm in size.
Myrrh	The resin is mainly produced in East Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and others) by grazing the bark of the trunk of Commiphora myrha	Gum Myrrh is an aromatic resin which is mostly dealt in round red-brownish pieces of approx. 2 mm to approx. 50 mm in size
Olibanum	The resin is produced in East Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Sudan) and South Arabia (Yemen and Oman) by tapping the trees of different Burseraceae species (mainly Boswellia carteri). The harvest time is from December to March	Gum Olibanum is an aromatic resin of pleasant odour. The lumps are nearly round to peasize and have a light yellow to brownish-yellow colour
Opoponax	This resin is obtained by scratching the bark of different kinds of Commiphora in East Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia and Kenya)	Gum Opoponax is an aromatic resin which is collected mostly in roundly red-brown pieces of approx. 2 to 50 mm
Sandarac	Gum Sandarac is derived in the Atlas region in Morocco from the cypress Sandarac tree which exists as an up to 12 m high tree but also as shrub.	Gum Sandarac is a resin leaking from bark and branches of the tree, hardened by air. In most cases the pieces have a long/oval or cylindrical form, up to 4 cm long, they are smooth and of yellowish-white colour and of balsamic odour, slightly like turpentine. Especially when being heated the taste is weakly aromatic, slightly bitter.
Sandarac	It is distinguished between two main origins: Liquidambar-Orientalis from Asia Minor (Turkey) and the American Styrax which is today exclusively produced in Honduras	Crude Styrax is a viscous, sticky, paste-like mass of grey (Turkey) to brown (Honduras) colour with a peculiar aromatic odour.