Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1914 — Oil Bearing Tree Found. [ARTICLE]

Oil Bearing Tree Found.

Scientific investigation is being made of a newly-discovered oil-bear ing seed found abundantly on the Island of Catanduanes, in the Philippines. It grows on a large tree and comes from brown pear-shaped fruit that opens not unlike a cotton boll when ripe and emits the seeds. The seeds are rough of surface and of a dark brownish color, about the size of a large dried prune and slightly kidney-shaped. The tree has not yet been fully identified, but it is thought to belong to the genus Amoora or Dysoxylum. Tradition shows That before the advent of p petroleum the inhabitants of Catanduanes used the oil from this seed as a luminant