Saudi Aramco World. (Abstracts: Film).Hansen, Eric, 2000, The hidden history of a scented wood, Saudi Aramco World Saudi Aramco World is a bi-monthly magazine published by Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia. In 2004, the magazine's website was awarded "Best Magazine Website" by the Web Marketing Association. The bimonthly magazine is published in Houston, Texas. , 51 (6): 2-13. For numberless centuries gaharu wood, which is claimed to produce the very best incense, has been one of the most expensive commodities in the world. The species of tree (Aquilaria) which this fungus (Phaophora parasitica) invades is found throughout much of Southeast Asia Southeast Asia, region of Asia (1990 est. pop. 442,500,000), c.1,740,000 sq mi (4,506,600 sq km), bounded roughly by the Indian subcontinent on the west, China on the north, and the Pacific Ocean on the east. and Assam, which was the source of the famed biblical aloes aloes (ăl`ōz), drug obtained from the aloe; also a biblical name for an aromatic substance of various uses, mentioned in connection with myrrh and spices and thought to be the fragrant wood of the modern aloeswood (also called eaglewood, . In fact there are seven sub-species of this tree and the one which concerns the author most is the Aquilaria malaccensis Aquilaria malaccensis is a species of plant in the Thymelaeaceae family. It is found in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. It is threatened by habitat loss. which is harvested by the Penan of Kalimantan. He traces the history of the trade in incense in the Middle East, where the product is known as 'ud in Arabic, and in China where it was certainly highly prized as early as the Han Dynasty (206 BC-AD 220) (El, Rosemary Robson-McKillop). |
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