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	terratreasures and adventures101 offer this offer this beautiful Hymenaea protera flower petal
		Before Hymenaea protera was described, scientists had discovered that the algarrobo tree is more closely related to the an African member of the living species in the genus Hymenaea verrucosa, than to any other New World species.
		Identifications of the source of the ambers are based on chemical "fingerprints" and on the whole and partial flowers, leaves and fruits found in the ambers.
		The Hymenaea tree exudes vast amounts of sap which over millions of years of pressure hardens the sap into amber.
	www.terratreasures.com /amber/botanicals/dr8002hymenaeaepetal/dr8002hymenaeapetal.html (496 words)

	Neotropical Amber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		And unlike most trees of the New World tropics, the genus Hymenaea allows one to peer into the geologic past--to actually see some of the creatures it was associated with millions of years ago, perfectly preserved in a transparent tomb of fossilized resin.
		A glob of glistening resin exuded from the trunk of a West Indian locust (Hymenaea courbaril).
		Near the end of this fabulous era the stage was finally set for a new age of flowering plants and mammals, recorded for posterity in the sticky resin of ancestral copal forests.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /ww0702.htm (5300 words)

	Blue Amber
		When Columbus arrived in 1492 at the island which the Spaniards called "La Hispaniola" (today Dominican Republic and Haiti), he got quite a surprise when he proudly presented a strand of Baltic amber beads and received in exchange from a young Taino prince a pair of shoes, decorated with Caribbean amber.
		While Baltic amber formed from hardened resin of the pine tree Pinus Succinifera, amber from the Dominican Republic originated from an extinct species of broad-leaved tropical trees Hymenaea protera of the legume family.
		One theory links the color in Dominican blue amber to the occurrence of volcanic ash or dust, which was present when the resin was pressed out from hymenaea protera millions of years ago.
	www.amber-market.com /page192.htm (620 words)

	FOSSIL AMBER
		The Dominican Republic resin tree was Hymenaea protera for which had its origins in Africa.
		Close relatives of this tree (Hymenaea verrucosa) still exist within the sub continent of Africa and on some of the West Indian islands.
		In nearly all of these cases, the climate under which these trees grew was sub tropical.
	www.paleodirect.com /fakeamber1.htm (543 words)

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		Some of the amber even reflects the UV rays of the sun and of other light sources.
		One theory links the rare properties Dominican amber to the occurrence of volcanic ash or dust which was present when the resin was first pressed out from hymenaea protera millions of years ago.
		Another suggests that due to volcanic activity hot lava must have flown over those areas where amber was buried under ground.
	www.lariamber.com /theorigin.html (360 words)

	What is amber?
		Pseudolarix is therefore beginning to look more likely as the true source of the Baltic Amber deposits.
		Hymenaea protera) for which had its origins in Africa.
		Close relatives of this tree (Hymenaea verrucosa) still exist within the sub continent of Africa and on some of the West Indian islands.The following link discusses in a little more detail
	www.gplatt.demon.co.uk /whatis.htm (1056 words)

	Amber
		There are several theories about the origin and it is not fully understood what causes the blue color in amber.
		One theory links the rare properties Dominican blue amber to the occurrence of volcanic ash or dust which was present when the resin was first pressed out from hymenaea protera millions of years ago.
		Red natural amber can also be found in the Dominican Republic.
	www.agrainofsand.com /Beads-Amber-179.html (738 words)

	Poinars Hymenaea Stamen in Amber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Scientists can even decipher seasonal and climate information.
		This particular stamen is from an amber producing tree, Hymenaea protera.
		Notice the pollen grains released and floating in the resin.
	www.uky.edu /AS/Geology/webdogs/amber/plants/stamen-b.html (88 words)

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