Jewels, color, perfume, and music

We get jewelry, perfumes, colors, and even music from plants.

Necklaces and other jewelry are often made of a yellowish rock called
amber. And amber came from a plant. Once it was a sticky gum from trees
like our pine and spruce trees. This gum turned hard as rock, millions
of years ago.

The perfumes people wear probably come from plants, too. The best kinds
of perfumes are made of the oil that comes from flowers.

Not long ago, people used the juice of flowers, berries, and bark to
give different colors to cloth. Some of these things are still used, but
most colors are now made from coal tar. These coal tar dyes come from
plants, too, because coal comes from trees that died long ago.

We get music from plants, too. The violins and clarinets in big
orchestras and the guitars of folk and rock musicians are made of wood
that comes from