Dhofar

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.

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The record

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Place

Dhofar

documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

the place name as the harvest globe’s data spells it; the Wikidata item is Q1207752 (Dhofar)

confidence A

Region

Dhofar Governorate, the main region of frankincense production in Oman

documented

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.

GC-15 · Yamamoto F, Iwanaga F, Al-Busaidi A, Yamanaka N · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Country

Oman

documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Coordinates

18, 54 (a representative point for the governorate (Wikidata P625), not a grove)

documented

Wikidata Q1207752 (Dhofar) P625

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Time zone

Asia/Muscat

documented

OM +2336+05835 Asia/Muscat

TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); pu · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Traditions

frankincense gathered by tapping the trunks and branches of Boswellia sacra

documented

In the Dhofar region, frankincense is harvested by tapping the trunks and branches of B. sacra trees, as for B. papyrifera in Ethiopia4.

GC-15 · Yamamoto F, Iwanaga F, Al-Busaidi A, Yamanaka N · read 2026-09-30

confidence A

Harvest, as a source states it

Grows here

• Boswellia sacra Flück.

Harvest and processing here

• tapping (harvest): tapping: incisions in the trunk and branches; the resin exudes, darkens and hardens in the wound, and is then removed
  documented

  In the Dhofar region, frankincense is harvested by tapping the trunks and branches of B. sacra trees, as for B. papyrifera in Ethiopia4.

  GC-15 · Yamamoto F, Iwanaga F, Al-Busaidi A, Yamanaka N · read 2026-09-30
  GC-16 · Miran M, Amirshahrokhi K, Ajanii Y, Zadali R, Rutter MW, Enayati A, Movahedzadeh F · read 2026-09-30

  GC-16: “traditionally harvested by making incisions on the trunks … it darkens and hardens before being removed from the incision” (GC-16)

  confidence A

  record

Films and plates

• OR-6 · frankincense: the origin film (the field to the bench) · queued: the master queue lists OR-6 as queued (the render queue’s list, read 2026-09-30); no path until it is rendered and published
  a render-time texture (Dry Riverbed Rock; a render input only): "Dry Riverbed Rock", Amal Kumar (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0; a render-time texture (Bark Willow 02; a render input only): "Bark Willow 02", Charlotte Baglioni (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0

Sources

1. GC-15 · Yamamoto F, Iwanaga F, Al-Busaidi A, Yamanaka N. Roles of ethylene, jasmonic acid, and salicylic acid and their interactions in frankincense resin production in Boswellia sacra Flueck. trees. Scientific Reports 2020;10(1):16760. DOI 10.1038/s41598-020-73993-2. PMID 33028915. PMCID PMC7541518. doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-73993-2 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0 (open access, as the article states); short quotes only, the text is not filed
2. GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to the English Wikipedia article of each place; wbgetentities API, read 2026-09-27. Values rounded to 5 decimals by the fetch script; representative points (city, region or country centroid), not field locations. www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&… · read 2026-09-27 · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata data licence)
3. TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); public domain. data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/zone.tab · read 2026-09-27 · public domain
4. GC-16 · Miran M, Amirshahrokhi K, Ajanii Y, Zadali R, Rutter MW, Enayati A, Movahedzadeh F. Taxonomical Investigation, Chemical Composition, Traditional Use in Medicine, and Pharmacological Activities of Boswellia sacra Flueck. Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2022;2022:8779676. DOI 10.1155/2022/8779676. PMID 35222678. PMCID PMC8881160. doi.org/10.1155/2022/8779676 · read 2026-09-30 · Creative Commons Attribution License (open access, as the article states); short quotes only, the text is not filed

These records are published under CC BY 4.0.

this record as data: /data/origin/dhofar-om.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence A