Kynam wood, or Agarwood, costs $10,000 (more than Rs 8.50 lakh) per gram, while 10 grams cost around Rs 85 lakh, making it ...

But for this tree to produce any agarwood, it must first become infected ... it needs to be separated from the healthy Aquilaria wood around it. In a painstaking task that often takes hours ...

Agarwood, also known as gaharu in Malaysia, is a fragrant dark resinous wood formed in the heart of the tree trunk that is used in the production of incense, perfume and other consumer products.

When we think of precious materials, gold and diamonds often come to mind. However, there exists a rare and extraordinary ...

Agarwood is created when incense trees are cut, which causes the plant to produce a dark resin to prevent infection. The product then takes the form of fragrant resinous wood.

Geneticist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree stump that is one of over a dozen illegally felled for the valuable wood ...

Over time, as the battle between the tree and the fungus rages, the heartwood is saturated with this fragrant resin and becomes dense and dark. Now it is known as Agarwood, and has been highly ...

Each year, the agarwood tree, a sought-after source of medicines and perfumes that grows in the rainforests of southwest China, needs to solve a problem. The tree’s fruits mature during the hottest ...

Born and raised in Tien Phuoc, Quang Nam - a region famous for agarwood - Le Ngoc Duc (born 1995) has had a deep connection with this precious wood since childhood. Over the years, Duc developed a ...