Canarium australianum F.Muell. (Burseraceae — the Bursera or
torchwood family) common names: Brown Cudgeree, Mango Bark,
Turpentine Tree Canarium is from the Moluccan vernacular name
for this genus (kanari). Bursera is named for Joachim Burser
(1583–1649), a German physician and botanist, who, in 1625, was
appointed professor of Medicine and Botany at the Ritter-Academy
in Sorö, Denmark. Burser is a very important figure in the
development of the science of Botany. Both before and after his
appointment to Sorö, he made extensive travels in Germany,
Austria, Bohemia, Switzerland, Italy, France and the Pyrenees,
during which he collected plant materials. These he arranged in
a Hortus Siccus (literally ‘dry garden’), an herbarium in book
form. There were 25 volumes, and a supplementary volume on
Danish plants. There were nearly 4000 sheets 20 x 35 cm in size.
Although two of the volumes were later lost in a fire, this book
was a very important source for Linnaeus in his Species
Plantarum, and still remains an im