Educational resources on Dragon's Blood Tree

Dragon's Blood Tree or Dracaena cinnabari is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Endangered due to B1+2c. IUCN Profile of the Dragon's Blood Tree

Academic web links for the Dragon's Blood Tree.

No. 1896: The Socotra Archipelago: ...tree. As they chew, a red fluid flows forth. This is called the Dragon's Blood Tree, for it bleeds red sap when it's wounded. The ...
http://www.uh.edu/engines/epi1896.htm

Economic uses: ...invading parasites and insects. Dragon's Blood Tree, Croton lechleri, is a widely used medicinal tree in South America. It is known ...
http://csm.jmu.edu/biology/clevinja/bio486/plantfamilies/AnnSimpson/Euphorbiaceae/economic_uses.htm

BONAP FABACEAE Listing: LEMONWEED. Psorothamnus Rydb. - SMOKEBUSH. Pterocarpus Jacq. - DRAGON'S-BLOOD-TREE. Pueraria DC. - KUDZU. Rhynchosia Lour. - SNOUT-BEAN. Robinia L. - LOCUST. ...
http://www.csdl.tamu.edu/FLORA/bonapfams/bonfpfab.htm

The Millersville Review: TITLE: And another: A compound extracted from the Amazon's dragon's blood tree became the basis of the experimental herpes drug, Virend, which is featured in the film ...
http://marauder.millersv.edu/~pubrel/mureview/spring00/feat2sp00.html

Bosworth/Toller, page b0209: ...dracan blÃ³d, es; n. Dragon's blood, a pigment obtained from the dragon's blood-tree; cinnab&a-short;ris = ÎºÎ¹Î½Î½Î±-tonos;Î²&a-short;Ï?Î¹, Cot. 210. ...
http://penguin.pearson.swarthmore.edu/~scrist1/scanned_books/html/oe_bosworthtoller/b0209.html

Boston Globe Online / Health | Science / Medicine Man: A compound extracted from the Amazon's dragon's blood tree became the basis of the experimental herpes drug Virend, which is featured in the film. ...
http://www.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Chem101/healing/Medicine_Man.shtml