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|image_caption=''Myroxylon balsamum'' from Koehler's ''Medicinal-Plants'' (1887)
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'''''Myroxylon''''' is a genus of two species of [[South America]]n [[tree]]s in the [[Fabaceae]] (Leguminosae). The tree is well know in the western world as the source for [[balsam of Peru]] and [[Tolu balsam|balsam of Tolu]]. 

They are small trees growing to 12 m tall, with [[evergreen]] pinnate [[leaf|leaves]] 15 cm long with 5-13 leaflets. The [[flower]]s are white with yellow stamens, produced in [[raceme]]s. The [[fruit]] is a [[legume|pod]] 7-11 cm long, containing a single [[seed]].

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Myroxylon (Myrrh Wood, From the scent). Syn. Toluifera. Leguminosae. A few balsam-bearing trees of S. Amer., scarcely cult.horticulturally. Lvs. odd- pinnate; Ifts. exstipellate, glandular-punctate: fls. more or less papilionaceous, white or whitish, in axillary simple racemes or paniculate at ends of branches; calyx irregularly dentate; standard orbicular; 4 inferior petals subequal, narrow and free; stamens deciduous with the petals, free or connate at base: pod stalked, compressed, indehiscent, at the apex hardened and 1-seeded, the basal part long and narrow and 2-winged. See also Toluifera. M. taluiferum, HBK. (Toluifera Balsamum, Linn.). Tolu-balsam Tree. Tree, to 75 ft. or more, with thick rough bark and a straight trunk: Lfts. 7-11, alternate, oblong and acuminate, quite glabrous, 2-3 ½in. long: the balsam is secured from incisions in the bark. M. peruiferum. Linn. f. Peru-Balsam Tree (but not the source of Balsam of Peru, which is from M. Pereirae. of San Salvador). Beautiful tree: Ifts. 9-13, ovate-oblong, alternate and emarginate at the apex, entire, puberulous on the midrib and petiole, punctate, l½-3 in. long: fls. in simple racemes 4-5 in. long, long-pedicelled.
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