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Agarwood

Educational resources on Agarwood

Agarwood or Aquilaria malaccensis is listed on the IUCN Red list (1996) as Vulnerable due to A1cd. IUCN Profile of the Agarwood

Academic web links for the Agarwood.


agarwood production in Aquilaria, oud, jinkoh, gaharu, aloeswood ...: ...sustainable agarwood production in Aquilaria trees at the University of Minnesota. ...
http://forestpathology.coafes.umn.edu/agarwood.htm

E-News, University of Minnesota: People living in Vietnam, Cambodia, New Guinea, or Saudi Arabia for example, might add agarwood to that list. ... This resin-soaked wood is agarwood. ...
http://www1.umn.edu/systemwide/enews/072502.html

WWF Calls For Ban In Trade Of Great White Sharks: ...of a UN conference on endangered species in Bangkok, also covers Asian freshwater turtles, the yellow-crested cockatoo and the plants cistanche and agarwood. ...
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/fish/sharks/innews/wwf2004.html

Next Issue: Bhutan: Agarwood, the world’s most rare and expensive incense, is produce d when Aquilaria trees produce a resin as a defense mechanism against infection or ...
http://www.coafes.umn.edu/prioritynews/apr.html

Northern Star | Star Living: Yves Saint Laurent's new M7 cologne for men combines the scents of rosemary and mandarin with hearty agarwood and musk for a sweet yet warm scent that ...
http://www.star.niu.edu/features/star_living/primary_needs/red/cologne.html

Honors Research Abstract: Aquilaria crassna, the agarwood tree, is a tropical mid- canopy tree of Southeast Asia that is being poached at, what park rangers believe, an alarming rate. ...
http://www.bio.unc.edu/undergraduate/honors/SymposiumSpring2004/wedel.htm

OldTools Archive -- message 140028: While I was looking it up, I found this facinating story about 'ud, or agarwood, the most valuable product to come from trees in the world. ...
http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/archive/get.phtml?message_id=140028







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