Gyrinops Explained

Gyrinops is a genus of nine species of trees, called lign aloes or lign-aloes trees, in the family Thymelaeaceae.[1] They are native to Southeast Asia and the Indian Subcontinent.

The genus Gyrinops is closely related to Aquilaria and in the past all species were considered to belong to Aquilaria.[2]

Agarwood production

Together with Aquilaria the genus is best known as the principal producer of the resin-suffused agarwood.[3] [4] The depletion of wild trees from indiscriminate cutting for agarwood has resulted in the trees being listed and protected as an endangered species.[5] [4] [3]

Projects are currently underway in some countries in southeast Asia to infect cultivated trees artificially to produce agarwood in a sustainable manner.[5] In Indonesia, for example, there have been proposals to encourage the planting of gahara, as it is known as locally, in eastern Indonesia, particularly in the province of Papua.[6]

Species

Notes and References

  1. http://eol.org/pages/5469849/overview EOL - Gyrinops
  2. Blanchette, Robert A. (2006) "Cultivated Agarwood - Training programs and Research in Papua New Guinea", Forest Pathology and Wood Microbiology Research Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota
  3. Barden, Angela (2000) Heart of the Matter: Agarwood Use and Trade and CITES Implementation for Aquilaria malaccensis TRAFFIC International, Cambridge,
  4. Ng, L.T., Chang Y.S. and Kadir, A.A. (1997) "A review on agar (gaharu) producing Aquilaria species" Journal of Tropical Forest Products 2(2): pp. 272-285
  5. Broad, S. (1995) "Agarwood harvesting in Vietnam" TRAFFIC Bulletin 15:96
  6. Theresia Sufa, 'Gaharu: Indonesia's endangered fragrant wood', The Jakarta Post, 2 February 2010.

This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Gyrinops".

Except where otherwise indicated, Everything.Explained.Today is © Copyright 2009-2024, A B Cryer, All Rights Reserved. Cookie policy.