Thymelaeaceae FAMILY

Aetoxylon sympetalum

Edibility

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Medicinal

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Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Aetoxylon sympetalum is a tree growing around 18 - 40 metres tall. The trunk is straight, sometimes with a fluted base, and around 30 - 60cm in diameter[ 899 Title Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak Vols 1 - 6 Publication Author Soepadmo E.; Saw L.G.; Chung R.C.K. (Editors) Publisher Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur. Year 2002 ISBN 983-2181-27-5 Description A flora of the woody plants of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo, often giving details of plant uses. ]. This tree is a locally important source of Agar wood, a rare and famous, resin-containing heartwood that is produced mainly from old and diseased trees of several species of the family Thymelaeaceae, especially the genus Aquilaria, and in particular Aquilaria malaccensis[ 899 Title Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak Vols 1 - 6 Publication Author Soepadmo E.; Saw L.G.; Chung R.C.K. (Editors) Publisher Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur. Year 2002 ISBN 983-2181-27-5 Description A flora of the woody plants of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo, often giving details of plant uses. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeSoutheast Asia - Malaysia (Sarawak), Indonesia (Kalimantan)

HabitatLowland mixed dipterocarp and kerangas forests; at elevations up to 100 metres[ 899 Title Tree Flora of Sabah and Sarawak Vols 1 - 6 Publication Author Soepadmo E.; Saw L.G.; Chung R.C.K. (Editors) Publisher Forest Research Institute Malaysia; Kuala Lumpur. Year 2002 ISBN 983-2181-27-5 Description A flora of the woody plants of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo, often giving details of plant uses. ]. Locally rather common in low, level, sandy ground, in primary non-inundated rain-forest[ 451 Title Flora Malesiana Series 1 Publication Author Various Website http://www.archive.org Publisher Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch Year 0 ISBN Description A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet ].