India’s First Dragon Blood-oozing Tree

  • Assam has added to India’s botanical wealth a plant that yields dragon’s blood — a bright red resin used since ancient times as medicine, body oil, varnish, incense and dye.
  • A team of researchers has discovered Dracaenacambodiana, a dragon tree species in the DongkaSarpo area of West KarbiAnglong.
  • In India, the Dracaena genus belonging to the family Asparagaceae is represented by nine species and two varieties in the Himalayan region, the northeast and Andaman and Nicobar Islands. But Dracaena cambodiana is the only true dragon tree species.
  • Dracaena cambodiana is an important medicinal plant as well as an ornamental tree whose sap ....
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