Dark colour fragrant resin produced by the certain plant members of family Thymaleaceae. Most commonly, the resin is known as Agarwood, Aloes wood, Eaglewood, Gaharu, Agalocha or Oudh (In Arabic). However, species of the genus Aquilaria are mostly known for the production of agarwood – it’s a fast…
Sandalwood is a class of woods from trees in the genus Santalum. The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and unlike many other aromatic woods, they retain their fragrance for decades. Colonization and sea trade in 18th & 19th centauries has introduced several species of sandalwood from Pacific and Oceania to the Sandalwood trade. It’s…
Teak (Tectona grandis) is a tropical hardwood species and is a large, deciduous tree that occurs in mixed hardwood forests. It has small, fragrant white flowers and papery leaves that are often hairy on the lower surface. It is sometimes known as the “Burmese teak”. Teak wood has…
Mahogany is a kind of wood—the straight-grained, reddish-brown timber of three tropical hardwooda species of the genus Swietenia, part of the chinaberry family, Meliaceae, indigenous to the Americas. The three species are: Honduran or big-leaf mahogany, with a range from Mexico to southern Amazonia in Brazil, the most…