Gum (botany)

Gum is a sap or other resinous material associated with certain species of the plant kingdom. This material is often polysaccharide-based and is most frequently associated with woody plants, particularly under the bark or as a seed coating. The polysaccharide material is typically of high molecular weight and most often highly hydrophilic[1] or hydrocolloidal.

Kino flows from a wound in the trunk of a marri (Corymbia calophylla)

As seed coating

Many gums occur as seed coatings for plant species; the adaptive purpose of some of these gummy coatings is to delay germination of certain flora seeds. An example of such a gummy coating occurs in the case of Western poison oak, a widespread shrub in western North America.[2]

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gollark: ```haskell#!/usr/bin/env runghcimport Data.Charimport Control.DeepSeqevaluate x = x `deepseq` xmain = putStr =<< concatMap toBig <$> evaluate <$> getContentsemoji :: String -> Stringemoji x = ':':x ++ ": "toBig :: Char -> StringtoBig ' ' = "\n"toBig '!' = emoji "exclamation"toBig '+' = emoji "heavy_plus_sign"toBig c | isLetter c = emoji $ "regional_indicator_" ++ [c] | otherwise = ""```
gollark: ```haskell#!/usr/bin/env runghcimport Data.Charimport Control.DeepSeqevaluate x = x `deepseq` xmain = putStr =<< concatMap toBig <$> evaluate <$> getContentstoBig :: Char -> StringtoBig ' ' = "\n"toBig '!' = ":exclamation: "toBig c | isLetter c = ":regional_indicator_"++[c]++": " | otherwise = ""```Bodginated version.
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See also

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  1. Schröder, Monika J. A. (2003). Food Quality and Consumer Value: Delivering Food that Satisfies. Springer. ISBN 3-540-43914-5.
  2. Hogan, C. Michael (15 October 2008). Nicklas Strömberg (ed.). "Western poison-oak: Toxicodendron diversilobum". GlobalTwitcher. Archived from the original on 21 July 2009.
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