The palo santo (Bursera graveolens (Kunth.) Triana & Planch. ) is a tropical tree whose hard, yellowish wood produces popular incense sticks widely used to purify the environment in the home or facilitate meditation due to its relaxing properties.

From its wood, by distillation, a precious essential oil which, in topical use, is used for its soothing properties to relieve different types of pain and to improve different dermatological conditions.

He palo santo tree It belongs to the Burseracea family and can measure between 4 and 17 meters high. It is characterized by having a silvery gray bark and being highly branched. The leaves are compound, with narrow, oval or obovate leaflets, and the flowers, grouped in panicles, are whitish in color. The fruits are hard capsules, ellipsoidal in shape.