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> >I do not understand how the propolis comes from the buds.


Trees use antimicrobial resins to protect new leaf buds, and any wounds in
the bark.  Bees simply coop the plant defenses.  I haven't observed populus
trees in the fall when bees are gathering propolis, but would GUESS that it
would be at wounds.

Randy Oliver

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