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Warm winters and showery summers are the perfect conditions for the Boswellia sacra tree to produce the sap called frankincense.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2010

With a practised flick, he cuts a strip of bark from the trunk of one of the Boswellia sacra trees.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2010

Most of the Boswellia sacra trees grow on public land, but custom dictates that each forest is given to one of the local families to farm, and Wadi Dawkah is his turf.

From BBC • Feb. 9, 2010

Her local myths and local sacra seem, on the whole, less barbaric than those of many other Olympians.

From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew

In St. Elisabeth, which is published as a concert oratorio, Dannreuther thinks that Liszt has produced something like an opera sacra.

From Franz Liszt by Huneker, James