Aquilaria
Aquilaria is a genus of trees, called lign aloes or lign-aloes trees, in the family Thymelaeaceae. It includes 21 species native to southeast Asia. They occur particularly in the rainforests of Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, southern China, Malaysia, Northeast India, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Borneo and New Guinea. The trees grow to tall. The leaves are alternate, long and broad, with a short acuminate apex and an entire margin. The flowers are yellowish-green, produced in an umbel; the fruit is a woody capsule long.
Species
Chinese Eaglewood
species
FamilyThymelaeaceae
Native toAssam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, East Himalaya, Hainan, Laos, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar
Observations1,511
沉香屬（學名：Aquilaria），又名土沉香屬，是東南亞的一屬瑞香科植物。它們特別在印尼、泰國、柬埔寨、老撾、越南、馬來西亞、印度北部、菲律賓、婆羅洲及新畿內亞的雨林內生長。樹高6-20米。葉子互生，長5-11厘米及闊2-4厘米，葉端尖及邊緣圓滑。花朵呈黃綠色，繖狀花序。果實的殼呈木質，長2.5-3厘米。 沉香木是出產自沉香屬，尤其是沉香樹。砍林令它們的數量大幅下降，故它們已成為瀕危物種。現時在東南亞已可以從培植的沉香屬生產沉香木的方法。
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Aquilaria is a genus of trees, called lign aloes or lign-aloes trees, in the family Thymelaeaceae. It includes 21 species native to southeast Asia. They occur particularly in the rainforests of Indonesia, Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, southern China, Malaysia, Northeast India, Bangladesh, the Philippines, Borneo and New Guinea. The trees grow to tall. The leaves are alternate, long and broad, with a short acuminate apex and an entire margin. The flowers are yellowish-green, produced in an umbel; the fruit is a woody capsule long.
The genus is best known, together with Gyrinops, as the principal producer of the resin-suffused agarwood used in aromatic incense production, especially Aquilaria malaccensis. The depletion of wild trees from indiscriminate cutting for agarwood has resulted in the trees being listed and protected as an endangered species. Projects are currently underway in some countries in southeast Asia to infect cultivated Aquilaria trees artificially to produce agarwood in a sustainable manner. In Indonesia, for example, there have been proposals to encourage the planting of gahara, as it is known locally, in eastern Indonesia, particularly in the province of Papua.