What is the actual/current name for the "Bird's Tongue" spice?

Question

THE BIRD'S TONGUE SPICE WA S KNOWN IN THE SECOND CENTURY B.C. THIS SPICE MADE ITS WAY TO THE WEST NEARLY A HALF A MILLENIUM LATER. IT WOULD BE ANOTHER MILLENIUM AND A HALF BEFORE EUROPE WOULD DISCOVER THIS SPICE. IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN EXTREMELY EXPENCIVE AND ZANZIBAR MADE IT A CAPITAL OFFENCEIN 1972 TO SMUGGLE THIS SPICE OUT OF THE COUNTRY.

Answer 1

The guy above is WRONG.

Clove tree (Syzigium aromaticum)

Splendid clove trees sometimes hundred year old scent the ways of Sainte-Marie with their warm and pleasant wooded perfume. Their persistent leaves are first yellow and green, then the back remains dark green whereas the surface exposed to sun initially pink becomes red as they mature. This harmonious mixture of colors gives you the illusion that these oval leaves shine as cast of gold and copper alloy. At five years the shrub's branches give its first claws: these non opened out flowers which are the cloves. The buds are manually picked when their pinkish colour becomes red. Then they are sun dried several weeks until they take a brown color. This spice called "bird tongue" was used in China since unmemorable times. Its many medicinal and culinary properties made of the clove the most expensive aromatics for a long time. It can be distilled with vapor to obtain eugenol. Nowadays its has a small economic value but some picturesque traditional stills still work in Sainte Marie.

Answer 2

The vast and intriguing history of cloves begins during the Han Dynasty in 2nd century BC China. Mandarins, the high officials, of the emperor, called the Son of Heaven, were required to chew on the spicy "nails" to sweeten their breath before entering.

Then and there it was referred to as hi-sho-shing, or "birds tongue."

Later it would become one the most prized spices in the world and take on a different name in almost every country. The Chinese acquired the hi-sho-shang from traders of the Mogada Empire in East India.

After centuries pass, Arab traders found their way down the coast of Oman (their eastern neighbor on the coast of the Arabian Sea), across the Bay of Bengal, to the China Sea where they found the source of the cloves in the Molucca, or Spice, Islands.

Answer 3

Ash berries (Holarrhen, called lissan ettir in Morocco. A tan, elongated
spice that looks like a bird's tongue and is alleged to have strong
medicinal and aphrodisiacal properties.)

Answer 4

I DON'T KNOW FOOL! what the heck is that all about. i don't even know your question.