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Aquilaria malaccensis
Also called Agarwood, Aloewood, Eaglewood, Aloeswood, Indian Aloewood, Malayan Eaglewoodtree
In Singapore: Malayan Eaglewood Tree, Agarwood, Karas, Kayu Gaharu, Kekaras, Tengkaras (Native to Singapore, Vulnerable)
Aquilaria malaccensis is a tropical tree in the Thymelaeaceae family, known as agarwood, valued for the fragrant resin that forms in its heartwood after injury or infection. It is grown in plantations mainly for resin production and is threatened in the wild.
Aquilaria malaccensis (Hindi: अगर, agaru; Assamese: সাঁচিগছ, sānci; Arabic: عود هندي, transl. Indian oud) or agar is a species of lign-aloe tree in the family Thymelaeaceae. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore,Thailand,also Cambodia. It is threatened by habitat loss.
The World List of Threatened Trees (Oldfield et al., 1998) listed Iran as one of the countries with a population of A. malaccensis. The exploratory 2002 CITES review confirmed that Iran has no record of the species. As a result, Iran is no longer considered as habitat for or producer of agarwood.
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Aquilaria malaccensis by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
