{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "dhofar-om",
 "type": "Origin",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "GC-15",
  "GEO-1",
  "TZ-1"
 ],
 "notes": "harvest_windows: empty on purpose. GC-15 says the resin yield depends on “the time of year” (docs/sources/GC-15-yamamoto-2020-boswellia-dhofar.md:25) but gives no months; lane F’s search (2026-09-27) found no dated tapping-season source either.",
 "place": {
  "value": "Dhofar",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:219",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the place name as data/1b/harvest.json spells it; the Wikidata item is Q1207752 (Dhofar)"
 },
 "region": {
  "value": "Dhofar Governorate, the main region of frankincense production in Oman",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-15",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-15-yamamoto-2020-boswellia-dhofar.md:19",
  "quote": "In Dhofar Governorate, the main region of frankincense production in Oman, B. sacra trees are the most economically important plants, as the commercial and phytopharmaceutical source of frankincense production5.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "country": {
  "value": "Oman",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:220",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "coordinates": {
  "lat": 18,
  "lon": 54,
  "precision": "a representative point for the governorate (Wikidata P625), not a grove",
  "ref": "Wikidata Q1207752 (Dhofar) P625",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:223",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "tz": {
  "value": "Asia/Muscat",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "TZ-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:226",
  "quote": "OM\t+2336+05835\tAsia/Muscat",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "harvest_windows": [],
 "traditions": {
  "value": "frankincense gathered by tapping the trunks and branches of Boswellia sacra",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-15",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-15-yamamoto-2020-boswellia-dhofar.md:22",
  "quote": "In the Dhofar region, frankincense is harvested by tapping the trunks and branches of B. sacra trees, as for B. papyrifera in Ethiopia4.",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "botanicals": [
  "boswellia-sacra"
 ],
 "media": [
  "or-6-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-frankincense",
  "globe": "/materials#global-origins",
  "map": "/materials#world-map",
  "harvest_table": "/materials#global-origins"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Dhofar is the main region of frankincense production in Oman. The resin is gathered there by tapping the trunks and branches of Boswellia sacra.",
  "body": [
   "No tapping season is given: the study on record says the yield depends on the time of year but names no months. The point on the globe is Wikidata’s point for the governorate."
  ]
 }
}