Question

What are the gum yielding in your surroundings? What procedure you should follow to collect gum from trees?​

Answer 1

Answer:-

In our surroundings neem, acacia, eucalyptus, sapota are some of the gum  yielding trees.

Process of collecting gum from trees:

1. Gum will flow naturally from cracks in the bark of acacia and neem trees
2. Gum is collected about four weeks after stripping and can be repeated every few weeks thereafter for several months
3. Mature plants are selected for taking gum
4. Suitable stem parts are selected
5. Grooves are made by break the bark away about three foot from the ground and 10 inches wide a sharp sickle or knife
6. We can fit a container at the lower end tightly, so that when gum begins to seep out, it will drip into it
7. The plants are to be kept undisturbed for at least two or three weeks
8. When the container is seen filled with gum they are removed
9. It is collected and stored for supply and used as adhesives, binding agents, in the preparation of medicines...etc.
10. Break some shallow notches in a 'V' shape, with the point of the 'V' directly above the center of the bucket
11. Leave the bucket attached to the tree until the gun begins to seep out and drains into it
12. Remove any nails or metal things from the tree and after taking down then gum collection bucket

This is the process for collect the gum from trees.

Answer 2

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• The important gum yielding trees are Acacia nilotica (babul), A catechu (khair), Steruculia urens (kullu), Anogeissus latifolia (dhawra), Butea monosperma (palas), Bauhinia retusa (semal), Lannea coromandelica (lendia) and Azadirachta indica (neem).