Often we hear people mention the word aloes, but we never know what it really is Agarwood? Agarwood is a kind of wood that contains sweet-smelling resin with a variety of distinctive shapes and colors derived from gaharu-producing trees.
Agarwood trees are mostly of this type of Aquilaria sp, Aetoxylon sympetallum, Gyrinops sp, and sp Gonystylus that grow naturally and then die as a result of the infection process of molds phialophora parasitica either naturally or artificially in the tree, resin contained in gaharu wood is usually a sap solid color soft black and brownish. with a strong aroma.
Aloes are grouped into 3 (three) sortimen, namely pig Agarwood, and ash kemedangan aloes.
Agarwood trees are mostly of this type of Aquilaria sp, Aetoxylon sympetallum, Gyrinops sp, and sp Gonystylus that grow naturally and then die as a result of the infection process of molds phialophora parasitica either naturally or artificially in the tree, resin contained in gaharu wood is usually a sap solid color soft black and brownish. with a strong aroma.Aloes are grouped into 3 (three) sortimen, namely pig Agarwood, and ash kemedangan aloes.
- Agarwood is a pig pig wood from Agarwood-producing trees
that contain resin with a fragrant aroma that is rather strong. Usually the color was black or blackish brown alternate. - Kemedangan is wood from trees producing Agarwood with resin content of grayish white to brown and smell fragrant with the scent of the weak. crude fiber, and wood is rather soft.
- Agarwood Powder dust is a result of the grinding process the remains of wood chips or wooden Agarwood.
Agarwood is obtained by means pick it up at the aloe tree that had died from an infection in the tree, causing the mastic. Aloe tree is felled and then cut or cleaved to find the timber that contains a collection of mastic. Then the pieces are scraped off so that the colors looked clear and collected in accordance with the content damarnya. for further proceedings.
Meanwhile, gaharu wood splinters remaining cutting, cleaning and pengerokan, reassembled to make an ash maker aloes. The benefits of aloe from the first used as incense fragrances in the event of certain religious rirual, medicine and cosmetics. Then the use of aloe as well until the ingredients making perfume, soap, body lotion, aromatherapy and others. The selling price of gaharu is expensive in the market and began scarcity gaharu trees in natural forests is a second major factor is the reason cultivation of aloe. Usually gaharu tree species are often cultivated Aquilaria malaccenss because the smell its aroma is a favorite middle eastern population. . So the price becomes expensive in international markets.