Kauri gum - Wikipedia
网页Kauri gum forms when resin from kauri trees leaks out through fractures or cracks in the bark, hardening upon exposure to air. Lumps commonly fall to the ground and can be covered with soil and forest litter, eventually fossilising .
Story: Kauri gum and gum digging - Te Ara: The Encyclopedia ...
网页Kauri gum is a resin (a sticky substance) produced by New Zealand’s giant kauri trees. The resin helps protect the tree by filling in holes and damaged areas. Kauri trees can live for more than 1,000 years, so they make a lot of gum over a lifetime.
Kauri Gum - History and Facts - Gum Diggers Park
网页Kauri Gum is the fossilised resin or sap of the Kauri Tree. The age of the gum can vary significantly – anywhere from a few hundred years old to many hundreds of thousands of years old. Some Kauri Gum found in the Otago in the South Island has been estimated by scientists to be over 175 million years old and is actually Amber.
Kauri Gum - JustKiwi.com
网页Kauri gum is the very rare fossilized resin from the New Zealand Kauri Tree. Kauri gum is generally around 30 to 60 thousand years old but can be millions of years old. Kauri gum can be polished and made into jewelry that releases a heavenly aroma when burnt.
KAURI GUM GALLERY - The Kauri Museum
网页Kauri gum is Aotearoa New Zealand’s version of amber, although typically not as old as true amber. Maori used gum (kāpia) burnt and mixed with fat as a pigment for moko tattooing, as a fire starter, and even chewed it like chewing gum.
Origin and early uses – Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand
网页Māori called kauri gum kāpia, and had many uses for it. They chewed fresh gum from trees, and softened older gum for chewing by soaking it in water and mixing it with the milk of pūwhā (common sow-thistle, Sonchus oleraceus). As gum burns readily, it was used to start fires or bound in flax to make a torch for night-time fishing.
Northland's buried treasure - New Zealand Geographic
网页Northland’s buried treasure. ‘Gold fever’ struck northern New Zealand in the late 1800s, and peaked at the turn of this century with 20,000 fortune-hunters spread across some 800,000 acres of land. What they were seeking was not metallic gold, but kauri gum: a rich golden resin which polishes up like glass and is one of this country’s ...
Kauri Gum, Kauri Copal and Kauri Gold - History and Facts
网页Kauri Gum is the fossilised resin or sap of the Kauri Tree. These enormous trees produce vast amounts of sap which congeal into lumps when the tree is injured. The sap hardens into a resin and becomes a form of Copal. Kauri Gum comes in many shades and colours, from almost completely clear up to almost black.
Kauri - New Zealand Geographic
网页Kauri gum torches were manufactured for night fishing, gum smoke used as an insect repellant and soot as the pigmentation in intricately tattooed moko. Softened by soaking in water, and mixed with the milk of the puha, the honey-coloured gum even became an aromatic chewing gum.
What we can learn from New Zealand's ancient kauri trees
网页2021年3月1日 · Itinerant 19th century gumdiggers, who sought the swamp kauri’s preserved golden resin for use in varnish and jewellery, were the first to exploit the trees for profit, digging up fields and...
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