section_path: Successful de-extinctions/Unknown Commiphora
section_name: Unknown Commiphora
paragraph_text: Unknown Commiphora
  
  In 2010, Sarah Sallon of Arava Institute for Environmental Studies grew a seed found in excavations of a cave in the northern Judean desert in 1986. The specimen, Sheba reached maturity in 2024 and is believed to be an entirely new species of Commiphora with many believing that Sheba may be the tsori or Judean balsam, plants that are said to have healing properties in the Bible.