What Does an Agarwood Tree Look Like? A Full Analysis of Its Morphological Characteristics

The agarwood tree is also known as soil agarwood, sunken-fragrance wood, white wood agarwood, tooth-fragrance tree, daughter fragrance, honey-fragrance tree, and Guan fragrance tree, and is a national second-class protected plant. But do you know what it looks like? How much does it cost?

1. What does an agarwood tree look like?

The agarwood tree is an evergreen tree, 5-18 m tall, with dark gray bark that is almost smooth, and tough fibers; the branchlets are cylindrical, wrinkled, sparsely pubescent when young, gradually shedding later, hairless or nearly hairless, sometimes present and sometimes absent. Its flowers are fragrant, yellow-green, and open in spring and summer each year.

2. How much does an agarwood tree cost?

Different origins, specifications, purchase quantities and other factors will all cause differences in agarwood tree prices. For example:

1. Maoming, Guangdong

A 5-year-old agarwood landscape tree with a crown width of 100cm costs 150 yuan/tree, with a minimum order of 100 trees;

2. Wenlou Town, Huazhou City

For 6-year-old agarwood trees with a crown width of 30cm, ground diameter of 6-30cm, and breast height diameter of 6-30cm, the price is: 100 yuan/tree for purchases of 100 trees or more, and 80 yuan/tree for purchases of 1000 trees or more;

3. Liaobu Town, Dongguan City

A 5-year-old agarwood tree with a breast height diameter of 8-10cm, ground diameter of 12cm, and crown width of 300cm costs 80 yuan/tree.

3. What is the agarwood formation technique?

1. Agarwood is very precious, but under natural conditions, because induction (such as wound stimulation) is relatively accidental, agarwood formation is “not one or two in a hundred”, and is very rare. Artificial agarwood formation has developed considerably in recent years, mainly including physical agarwood formation, chemical induction agarwood formation, and artificial bacterial inoculation agarwood formation.

2. Physical agarwood formation includes the half-trunk method, the cut-wound method, and the hole-chiseling method. Effective chemical inducing substances have been discovered. According to experience, after treating white wood agarwood wounds with formic acid, sulfuric acid, and ethephon, agarwood formation can be advanced; in addition, sodium chloride, sodium bisulfite, and ferrous chloride also have certain effects.