Opoponax Resin

+1

Nyingine

Aina

Other

Chapa

Trees / Forestry

Aina ya Mazao

Uwasilishaji

Nairobi • Eneo la Viwanda (Nairobi)

1 mchana

KSh 100 - 200

Anwani ya duka

Laikipia • Nanyuki

Laikipia road

Open

• Jumatatu - Jumamosi, 08:00-17:00

A perennial, with a thick, fleshy root, yellowish in colour. It has a branching stem growing about 1 to 3 feet high, thick and rough near the base. Leaves pinnate, with long petioles and large serrate leaflets, the terminal one cordate, the rest deficient at the base, hairy underneath. The flowers, yellowish, are in large, flat umbels at the top of the branches. The oleo resin is procured by cutting into the stem at the base. The juice that exudes, when sun-dried, forms the Opoponax of commerce.In commerce it is sometimes found in tears, but usually in small, irregular pieces. Colour, reddish-yellow, with whitish specks on the outside, paler inside. Odour, peculiar, strongly unpleasant. Taste, acrid and bitter. It is inflammable, burning brightly.

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