Bursera


Bursera is a genus with about 100 described species of flowering shrubs and trees varying in size up to high. It is the type genus for Burseraceae. The trees are native to the Americas, from the southern United States south through to northern Argentina, in tropical and warm temperate forest habitats.
It is named after the 17th-century Danish botanist Joachim Burser.
Several Mexican species produce a type of wood known as linaloe. They contain the aromatic oil linalool.
A number of species from tropical Asia were once included in this genus, but are now treated in the genus Protium.
The Bursera graveolens tree belongs to this genus.

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