Comments on: Socotra Island dragon trees from Yemen bleed when cut https://www.greenprophet.com/2014/10/haunting-dragon-trees-from-yemen-bleed-when-cut/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Mon, 22 Jan 2024 08:30:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Dr Joe Krawczyszyn https://www.greenprophet.com/2014/10/haunting-dragon-trees-from-yemen-bleed-when-cut/#comment-1033385 Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:19:26 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=107373#comment-1033385 This photo is a fake. The logs of wood presented show :
i) growth rings (neither Socotran nor Canarian dracaenas show any growth nor annual rings)
ii) lack of pith (central, soft part, often root out) while dracaenas show very thick pith
III) thick bark with deep grooves in its surface (Dracaena bark is thin and scaly
iv) too many straight logs (Socotrans Dracaenas are branching every foot or so)
The sap inside Dracaenas is this, watery and colourless. It gets its redness as it solidifies on contacts with oxygen but this takes weeks if not months to happen. As it solidifies It never flows freely.

By the way, trip to Yemen is a very risky because it is WAR there.
Joe

]]> By: Lisa https://www.greenprophet.com/2014/10/haunting-dragon-trees-from-yemen-bleed-when-cut/#comment-1007006 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 11:58:41 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=107373#comment-1007006 This article has a few mistakes. The trees do not “bleed” – the inside of the bark is red but hard and is chipped away with a knife. It’s then mixed with water or ground into a powder for various uses. The photo of the bleeding tree is not Dracaena nor is the “dried up” dragon’s blood tree – that’s a desert rose, Adenium obesum 🙂

]]> By: Karin Kloosterman https://www.greenprophet.com/2014/10/haunting-dragon-trees-from-yemen-bleed-when-cut/#comment-1006080 Tue, 28 Oct 2014 13:06:20 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=107373#comment-1006080 In reply to Basel Ismaiel.

I find this whole tree very haunting. I must learn more about it.

]]> By: Basel Ismaiel https://www.greenprophet.com/2014/10/haunting-dragon-trees-from-yemen-bleed-when-cut/#comment-1002815 Fri, 24 Oct 2014 06:29:32 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=107373#comment-1002815 In fairness to the choppers, the red sap is used as lipstick, the mighty Wikipedia says. So yeah..

]]> By: Karin Kloosterman https://www.greenprophet.com/2014/10/haunting-dragon-trees-from-yemen-bleed-when-cut/#comment-1000465 Wed, 22 Oct 2014 06:08:56 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=107373#comment-1000465 In reply to Basel Ismaiel.

Yes. When the job opens up, I will be there! 😉

]]> By: Basel Ismaiel https://www.greenprophet.com/2014/10/haunting-dragon-trees-from-yemen-bleed-when-cut/#comment-998587 Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:53:06 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=107373#comment-998587 Prolly you should apply for a job in the Yemeni tourism promotion & management establishment.

]]> By: And Now The News … | Tree and Neighbor Law For Homeowners and Professionals https://www.greenprophet.com/2014/10/haunting-dragon-trees-from-yemen-bleed-when-cut/#comment-997190 Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:52:55 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=107373#comment-997190 […] Amman, Jordan, greenprophet.com, October 20, 2014: Haunting dragon trees from Yemen bleed when cut […]

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