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Aniba rosaeodora
Also called Rosewoodtree
Brazilian rosewood is a large evergreen rainforest tree from South America, grown mainly for its fragrant essential oil rather than as a garden plant. It is rarely cultivated and is endangered in the wild, so it is not a practical plant for home growing.
Aniba rosaeodora, also known as pau-rosa, is a species of Magnoliid tree in the family Lauraceae that grows in parts of the tropical rainforest of South America. It is often mistaken for rosewood, but does not belong in the proper rosewood genus, Dalbergia, or even its order. Like rosewood, it is exploited for its essential oil, and has therefore become endangered.
The plant is one of the commercially important sources of rosewood oil. The tree is collected in the wild. After felling, the trees are cut into one–meter long logs which are taken to the riverbank and stockpiled there. When river levels are high enough, the logs are floated downriver to a distillery. Because of the remoteness and difficulty of travel in the Amazon, distilleries are often mobile, movable by raft. When they arrive at the distillery, the logs are chipped and then steam distilled. Each tree yields about 1% oil by weight of wood. Most worldwide production comes from Brazil; since the 1960s, other areas produce only a minor, insignificant amount. Trees are taken from near the Amazon and its tributaries.
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