Abies cilicica

Abies cilicica
Cilica fir in north Lebanon
Conservation status
Least Concern (IUCN 2.3)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Pinophyta
Class:	Pinopsida
Order:	Pinales
Family:	Pinaceae
Genus:	Abies
Species:	A. cilicica
Binomial name
Abies cilicica Ant. & Kotschy Carriére

Abies cilicica, or Cilicia Fir, is a species of conifer in the Pinaceae family. It is found in Lebanon, Syria, and Turkey.

In 2009 at Berenice Troglodytica, the Egypto-Roman port on the Red Sea, archaeologists found: "two blocks of resin from the Syrian fir tree (Abies cilicica), one weighting about 190 g and the other about 339 g, recovered from 1st-century AD contexts in one of the harbor trenches. Produced in areas of greater Syria and Asia Minor, this resin and its oil derivative were used in mummification, as an antiseptic, a diuretic, to treat wrinkles, extract worms and promote hair growth."^[1]

Footnotes

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References

• Conifer Specialist Group 1998. Abies cilicica. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 10 July 2007.