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What's agarwood


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What's agarwood


Agarwood, Aloes wood. Eaglewood, Jinkoh, Gaharu, Mai Kisna are names for the world’s most valuable incense. Aquilaria is Agar Wood Botanical Name. Agar wood is the most expensive wood in the World. It is valued is many cultures for its distinctive fragrance, and used extensively in incense and perfumes. The wood is formed as a result of the trees immune response to fungal infection. This resinous material is produced by tropical rainforest trees and has been used for centuries as incense and in traditional medicine. Buddhist and Islamic cultural activities as well as an important ingredient in many traditional medicines. It is also an extremely important component in traditional Japanese incense ceremonies. Arab people they are using this old everyday for fragrance. They are burning more this Agar Wood when they have any function, festival, wedding and when they receiving their Guests. They giving each other gift, this is part of their Royal Behavior.

Also known as aloeswood, heartwood, or eaglewood, agarwood resembles amber resin. It is sticky and malleable, but not naturally produced by trees like most kinds of sap. It only forms within a small percentage of trees from the Aquilaria family, called thymelaeceae, that used to grow across the temperate and rainforests in Malaysia, Laos. Papua New Guinea , Indonesia , India , and Vietnam . These tropical trees actually grow very quickly in poor soil, so long as they have enough water.

Unfortunately, the trees aren't valued for their prolific lumber, but rather the anomalous substance of agarwood that seems to arise as a result of an infection or genetic mutation. Sadly, one cannot tell which trees might yield a hefty harvest of agarwood until they are felled and split open. Foresight may have allowed them to be monitored as a renewable resource, yet over-harvesting has all but eliminated the Aquilaria trees in most countries. Repopulation at this point is probably not tenable.

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