{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "tapping",
 "type": "Process",
 "version": 2,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "A",
 "sources": [
  "GC-15",
  "GC-16"
 ],
 "notes": "Schema v2 (Lane 14, 2026-09-30): filed by Lane 11 as an Extraction record (the model then had no Process type), converted here. Tapping is a harvest: the resin is gathered as it exudes.",
 "kind": "harvest",
 "name": {
  "value": "tapping",
  "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"
 },
 "method": {
  "value": "tapping: incisions in the trunk and branches; the resin exudes, darkens and hardens in the wound, and is then removed",
  "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",
  "sources": [
   "GC-16"
  ],
  "note": "GC-16: “traditionally harvested by making incisions on the trunks … it darkens and hardens before being removed from the incision” (docs/sources/GC-16-miran-2022-boswellia-sacra.md:16)"
 },
 "timing": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no sourced figures; GC-15: the yield depends on the tree’s size and age and the time of year (not quantified here)"
 },
 "yields": {
  "value": "the hardened resin, frankincense",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-16",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-16-miran-2022-boswellia-sacra.md:16",
  "quote": "Species of the genus, known as frankincense trees (olibanum), produce a resin gum traditionally harvested by making incisions on the trunks of the trees; as the resin is exposed, it darkens and hardens before being removed from the incision [9].",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "parameters": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no sourced figures; GC-15: the number of tapping points depends on trunk diameter, and the yield on the tree’s size and age and the time of year (not quantified here)"
 },
 "history": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no Historical Event record yet"
 },
 "materials": [
  "frankincense-resin"
 ],
 "botanicals": [
  "boswellia-sacra"
 ],
 "origins": [
  "dhofar-om"
 ],
 "media": [],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-frankincense"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Tapping gathers frankincense: the trunk and branches are cut, and the resin that exudes darkens and hardens in the wound before it is removed.",
  "body": [
   "It is a harvest, not an extraction; no figures are given here."
  ]
 }
}