I've just seen it called mastic or mastica or mastic. Yellowish usually. I seem to recall I ground it up for whatever I was using it for - it was quite a while back.
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I've just seen it called mastic or mastica or mastic. Yellowish usually. I seem to recall I ground it up for whatever I was using it for - it was quite a while back.
I've just seen it called mastic or mastica or mastic. Yellowish usually. I seem to recall I ground it up for whatever I was using it for - it was quite a while back.