Hardened spruce sap (gum) formed at the site where a branch was broken from the tree

• Author(s) / Creator(s)

  • Campbell, Sandy

• Gum or hardened sap from spruce trees has been used as a traditional medicine by Northern Canadian Indigenous people. It is used as a chewing gum and also melted to make a glue to fix canvas boats or plug holes.

• Date created

  2016-03-27

• Subjects / Keywords

  • White spruce - sap
  • Medicinal Plants - Northern Canada
  • Picea glauca - gum
  • Picea glauca - sap
  • Spruce gum
  • White spruce - resin
  • Kutchuq (qivk)

• Type of Item

  Image

• DOI

  https://doi.org/10.7939/R3VK0G

• License

  Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International