Tree sap

From fruits, berries, flowers, honey, treesap, milk, from almost any plant or substance containing carbohydrate and sugar, primitive man made alcohol and drank it to “forget his sorrows.”

Those possessed by the spirit in Kitombo were said to be able to eat poisonous berries and treesap.

Other species, such as those of Euptychia, are found sipping at leaking treesap, rotting fruit, muddy spots or on dung.

When the last mine closed / and its timbers turned pliable as treesap, / the town began to tilt, to slide / back into its past like a wave.

They’re present year-round, often swarming at the bases of trees in late winter and feeding on treesap released by a trunk scar or broken branch.

Behind them came a thousand tin soldiers with slingshots in hand, pelting our fiendish foes with snowballs and gobs of sticky treesap.