Horticulturists are celebrating the growth of a 1,000 year old “Tsori” seed, discovered nearly 30 years ago, which is believed to produce a balm resin mentioned several times in the Bible.

They grew it in an Israeli greenhouse, and it is now a 10-foot tree that produces a clear resin researchers say could be the biblical “balm of Gilead ... and Bible. Lihanda is still missing.