Dragon blood Trees
These amazing plants grow slowly and are native to the Socotra archipelago between the coast of Yemen and the Horn of Africa. A full third of the plants found in these islands are endemic (ie found nowhere else as natives) as they are isolated in the Indian Ocean, with the nearest land being 250km away and it has been named as a contender for the most alien looking place on Earth award. The trees are slow growing and get their name from the red resin they exude when the bark is injured. The resin was used in traditional medicine (and remains so today) and to make dyes as far away as Greece and Rome, which obtained them through trade along with frankincense and myrrh.
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