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Wow! That is really interesting--I knew that it must have had uses for ancient people, because it lends itself so well to crafts. I'm sure the wine was good, since sap is so aromatic. Where I live, the Native Americans used tar--from naturally occurring oil leakages--to seal abalone shells for bowel...

According to Wikipedia, Gum Arabic is from the Acacia tree. I have never used it. The sap I used was from a type of pine tree. But many tree saps have different properties --we like to eat maple syrup on our pancakes. It would be interesting to experiment with them. The nice thing about pine sap is ...

My wand is our native willow. But I never use it!
BTW--If you decide to try the tree sap, I think you should test it on something else, because you have to scrape it off if you decide you don't want it on your wand.

Hi, Some trees, I have seen coniferous ones, leak sap which dries into hard lumps. If you collect an old lump of sticky sap, you can heat it in a small burner over a candle--like an essential oil candle-heater-thing. When you heat this sap, it will become liquid--when it dries, it will be solid (as ...