dragon's-blood

Dax watched a vivid purple corona sink into ultraviolet invisibility for a moment, then flash back to dark dragon's-blood red to start the cycle all over again.

Time's Enemy Graf, L. A. 1996

It is undoubtedly a providential thing for the Sokotran that his island is harbourless, that his mountains are not auriferous, and that the modern world is not so keen about dragon's-blood, which is still called

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

If the dragon's-blood tree, with its close-set, radiating branches and stiff, aloe-like leaves, is quaint -- and some might be inclined to say ugly -- it has, nevertheless, its economic use; but not so its still quainter comrade on the slopes of Mount Haghier, the gouty, swollen-stemmed _Adenium_.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

Huge fig-trees grow in these crevices, and dragon's-blood trees, and large herds of cows and goats revel in the rich carpet of grass which covers the flat surface of the plateau.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

The glory of Mount Haghier is undoubtedly its dragon's-blood tree

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

It was low down on the southern slope of Mount Haghier; our tents were pitched in a grove of palm-trees at the meeting of two rushing streams; tangled vegetation hung around us on every side, and whichever way we looked we had glimpses of granite peaks and rugged hill-sides clad with dragon's-blood.

Southern Arabia Mabel Bent

Interminable forests grew on the banks and islands, with the many-rooted mangrove-tree, tall, snake-like canes with drooping tufts of leaves, the dragon's-blood tree, the india-rubber, and many others.

From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People Sven Anders Hedin 1908

There were three mezzotints on the walls, a dragon's-blood vase on the high, carved chimney-piece; the whole bore the unmistakable stamp of a fine, individual taste.

Michael 1903

India-rubber tree; the great courbaril, the "dragon's-blood" tree, not that celebrated tree of the East (_Draccena_), but one of a different genus (_Crotori_), from whose white bark flows a red blood-like juice.

The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon Mayne Reid 1850

India-rubber tree; the great courbaril, the "dragon's-blood" tree, not that celebrated tree of the East but one of a different genus from whose white bark flows a red blood-like juice.

Popular Adventure Tales Mayne Reid 1850