Today’s lesson: Where does gum come from?
Wayne’s Word is an informative natural history site about botany and biology created by Dr. Wayne Armstrong and friends at the Palomar College Arboretum, and it includes a great and detailed copyrighted article about how gum gets from the Manilkara Zapota (pictured above) — a native tree from Central America — (or perhaps other sources) to your mouth.
Read (and see) a lot more below: