Styrax, or also named storax resin, is an odoriferous tree resin, which is used for incense or as a medicine. Originally it came only from Asia Minor and the eastern part of the Mediterranean, extracted from the storax tree (Styrax officinalis). Later the main part came from various species of the very alike odouring (but not related to the storax tree) amber tree (Liquidambar orientalis, Liquidambar styraciflua), which is often named the storax tree as well.
