About Aloewood
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, also Thailand. 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.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Aquilaria malaccensis
- Genus
- Aquilaria
- Family
- THYMELAEACEAE
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Cultivated
- Distribution
- Southeast Asia
- Flowering & fruiting
- April-September
- Conservation status
- CR
Local Names
- Hindi
- अगर
- Bengali
- আগর উদ্ভিদ
- Tamil
- அகில், காழ்வை
- Kannada
- ಅಗಿಲ್, ಅಗಿಲು Agil, ಕಾರಗಿಲ್
- Malayalam
- അകിൽ (Aquilaria malaccensis)
- Marathi
- अगरू
Thymelaeaceae
Daphne/Agarwood family
Aloewood belongs to the Thymelaeaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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