Color Lemon Grass

Lemon grass with separate spikelet.

Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Calamus was a chief spice used as an ingredient in the holy anointing oil (Exodus 30:25). It was imported into the Holy Land, and sold in the markets of Tyre (Ezekiel 27:19). If Vedan and Javan, from which it seems to have been brought, were, as is usually supposed, islands of the Mediterranean, it may have been the sweet sedge (Acorus calamus), which was probably introduced very early into Europe from India. Its underground stem is fragrant, and enters into many compounds of the perfumer. The calamus may, however, have been one of the sweet-scented lemon-grasses of India. These grasses have a strong aromatic odor. The base of the stem and roots are at the present day made into fans, or woven into screens or mats, and mush used in India and elsewhere, because they give off for a long time the fragrance of the plant.

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Color Cassia Cinnamon

Cassia Cinnamon.

Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Cassia is one  of  the  ingredients  of  the  holy anointing  oil  (Exodus  30:  24),  and  not  the  same as cinnamon,  which  was  another  ingredient.  Some, however,  hold  that  cassia  was  obtained  from another  species  of  cinnamon,  and  that  the  barks of  both  Cinnamomum zeylanicum and C. cassia were  used  in  making  the  holy  oil.  It  is  more probable  that  the  revisers  are  right  when  they suggest  in  the  margin  that  the  plant  is  costus. This  is  obtained  from  an  Indian  composite  plant called  Aplotaxis lappa,  which  grows  on  the mountains  of  the  Cashmere  Valley,  where  the aromatic  root  is  largely  dug  up  in  the  autumn, and  is  exported  to  China  to  be  used  as  an  ingredient in  the  incense  in  the  temples.  It  is specified  as  one  of  the  articles  of  Syrian  commerce (Ezekiel 27:19).  The  cassia  of Psalms 45: 8  is  the translation  of  another  Hebrew  word,  but  most probably  it  refers  to  the  same  plant. 

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Color Millet from The Bible Lands

Millet with separate grain, staminate, and
 pistillate flowers. Click on image to 
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Description of Botanical Coloring Page: Millet, a name for several small-seeded cereals, which supply a large amount of food in tropical and sub-tropical countries. With wheat, barley, beans, lentils, and spelt, it formed the bread which Ezekiel was ordered to make (Ezekiel 4:9). The species most frequently cultivated is Panicum miliaceum, but the name is given to other species of Panicum. Indian millet belongs to another genus, being Sorghum vulgare.

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Color the Reeds That Grow in The Bible Lands

With separate spikelet and flower.
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Description of Botanical Coloring Page:  A Reed, The  usual  translation  of  kaneh,  a plant  which  grew  in  the  water  in  such  abundance, and  to  such  a  height,  that  the  hippopotamus could  conceal  itself  amongst  it  (Job  40.  21). The  stem  was  long  and  straight,  and  was  consequently used  for  many  purposes;  and  the  name was  transferred  to  the  objects  made  of  it,  as  to a  cane  (this  word  being  derived  from  the  Hebrew  kaneh,  a  measuring  rod  (Ezekiel  40: 3),  a beam  of  the  balance.  The  plant  is,  with  little doubt,  Arundo  donax  -  a  tall  grass  that  usually grows  in  or  near  water.  The  ancients  made  the shafts  of  their  arrows  of  this  grass,  and  used  it also  for  flutes  and  pipes.  The  kalamos.  or  reed, of  the  New  Testament  is  the  same  plant. Reeds (Heb. agham) in  Jer. 51:32, rendered "marshes"  in  the  margin  of  R.V., no doubt refers  to  the  tall  marsh  plants  or  reeds  that  afforded protection  to  the  defenders  of  the  fords.

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