Resin
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In polymer chemistry and materials science, a resin is a solid or highly viscous substance of plant or synthetic origin that is typically convertible into polymers. Resins are usually mixtures of organic compounds. This article focuses mainly on naturally occurring resins.
Cedar of Lebanon cone showing flecks of resin as used in the mummification of Egyptian Pharaohs
Extremely viscous resin extruding from the trunk of a mature Araucaria columnaris.
The material dripping from an almond tree looks confusingly like resin, but actually is a gum or mucilage, and chemically very different.
Dipterocarpaceae
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Dipterocarpaceae is a family of 16 genera and about 695 known species of mainly lowland tropical forest trees. Their distribution is pantropical, from northern South America to Africa, the Seychelles, India, Indochina, Indonesia, Malaysia and Philippines. The greatest diversity of Dipterocarpaceae occurs in Borneo.
Dipterocarpaceae fossil displayed at Philippine National Museum
Primary lowland dipterocarp forest at Danum Valley, Sabah, Malaysia
Anisoptera costata at Taksin Maharat National Park, Thailand