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Dalbergia parviflora is a thorny, woody climber (liana) native to Southeast Asia, grown mainly for its fragrant heartwood used in incense. It is a forest vine rather than a garden plant, so it is seldom grown outside its native tropics.
Dalbergia parviflora is a species of liana found in South East Asia. Its name is kayu laka in Malay and Indonesian, from which the word lakawood, the heartwood of the plant used for incense, is derived.
The plant is called khree in Thai, tahid-labuyo in Tagalog, in Vietnamese it is trắc hoa nhỏ (i.e. "small flowers" as in the scientific name). The genus Dalbergia is placed in the subfamily Faboideae and tribe Dalbergieae; no subspecies are listed in the Catalogue of Life.
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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.
