Nature's own acrylic, a glob of hardened resin from one of the breu trees. There a lot of resin producing trees at Bosque Santa Lucia, but this sample came from a collector, who commercializes the product for caulking canoes and boats. The genus is Protium, but I don't know the species. There are some breu trees which produce resin of the color seen in the attached image. There are others which produce black resin.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Tree resin
Nature's own acrylic, a glob of hardened resin from one of the breu trees. There a lot of resin producing trees at Bosque Santa Lucia, but this sample came from a collector, who commercializes the product for caulking canoes and boats. The genus is Protium, but I don't know the species. There are some breu trees which produce resin of the color seen in the attached image. There are others which produce black resin.
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Very interesting! I enjoyed seeing your insect pictures below, too. You caught some good detail in your photos. The dung beetles are fascinating creatures in a yucky kind of way. :-D They have them in Africa - lots of elephant dung there. I don't think I would want to meet up with the giant beetle.
Hey! Thanks for the great info about tree resin. I love learning about different rock structures. I was browsing through a bunch of green websites and blogs and I came across yours and found it very interesting. There are a bunch of others I like too, like the daily green, ecorazzi and earthlab.com. I especially like EarthLab.com’s carbon calculator (http://www.earthlab.com/signupprofile/). I find it really easy to use (it doesn’t make me feel guilty after I take it). Are there any others you would recommend? Can you drop me a link to your favorites (let me know if they are the same as mine).
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