The manna extracted from ash trees is also edible and remarkably sweet. The tree species, also known as Fraxinus ornus in Latin, has always been part of the local vegetation. One of the hills near ...

But manna is more than a literary anachronism -- it actually exists today in Italy, in a small corner of the island of Sicily. It does not fall from the sky -- it drips from the ash tree.

While experts disagree what substance, specifically, this passage refers to, a honey-like, flaky and frost-coloured resin named manna has been extracted from the bark of ash trees in the ...

The manna ash are the trees visitors in Palermo in early summer see blooming with clusters of whitest flowers. Manna serves in pharmacy as a gentle laxative, demulcent and ex-pectorant. It is good ...

The future for ash – the tree that gave us food ... and humans have also eaten a sweet exudate -- manna -- from damaged bark, which acts as a sweetener and mild laxative. Used in herbal medicine ...

A manna gathered from European ash trees contains a certain sugar named mannitol, which is used in baby laxatives. How sweet. Boca Raton’s major development plan near Brightline station may see ...

Every year, at the height of the long, dry Sicilian summer, Italian farmer Giulio Gelardi goes out to his 500 ash trees in the Madonie region to perform a centuries-old ritual. Gelardi, a resident ...