Copal resin - harvested in the Peruvian Amazon
This resin was harvested from a variety of copal trees in the Peruvian Amazon during sustainable harvest field trials conducted by Amazon Ecology between 2006 and 2015. The white copal resin was primarily manually harvested from controlled manual cuts in a plantation of 40 year Protium hebetatum trees around Jenaro Herrera. The black copal came from trees of diverse species of copal trees (all in the family Burseraceae) produced through the action of bark-boring weevils.
Both types of resin are available in simple envelopes of 100 grams (about 3.5 oz)
Model: RES01 (white); RES02 (black)
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