Researchers believe the tree species, which is thought to be extinct today, could’ve been the source of a healing balm that’s been mentioned in the Bible.
It’s something from the pages of the Bible and scientists think it has been gone for a very long time.
Scientists conducting the new research weren’t able to identify the type of tree from just the seed, so the team – led by Dr. Sarah Sallon, a physician who founded the Louis L. Borick Natural Medicine Research Center at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem – planted the seed to further investigate.
“About five and a half weeks later, up jumps this nice little shoot,” Sallon said. Protecting the shoot tip was a caplike feature called an operculum. Once it had shed, the team used radiocarbon dating on the organic matter to estimate the plant’s age and found the specimen dated to between 993 AD and 1202 AD.
“We planted it in 2010 it’s now 2024. Why did we wait so long ? Because I wanted to make sure that it wasn’t the Judean Balsam. And how would I definitively know that? By smelling it,” Sallon said.
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