The resin of Chios
mastic tree. An old product with modern [cited 2011 May 30] Available from: www.unipa.
A very common custom among families of the Hijaz region is to burn mastic (a natural resin or gum extracted from
mastic trees) and place jugs above the incense to mix the taste of Zamzam water (filled afterward) with the incense.
As of August each year, people start carving the bark of the
mastic trees. Resin is created to close the trees' wounds, or - more poetically - the trees shed tears.
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Dozens of firefighters and aircraft were deployed to fight the forest fire which broke out early on Monday, burning through olive groves and
mastic trees, an important source of income for the island which has a population of about 52,000.
Mastic (also know as Chios Tears) comes from
mastic trees grown in six villages (Mastichochoria) in the south of the small Greek island of Chios.