Akilaria - Akilaria

Japanese: アキラリア - あきらりあ
Akilaria - Akilaria

…Frankincense and myrrh are lumps of fragrant, rubbery resin secreted from cuts in the primary tree, while agarwood is a resin deposit and condensation in the wood of a small part of the primary tree's trunk that is rarely found in dense forests. The primary tree of agarwood grows on several species of evergreen trees of the genus Aquilaria and others that are rarely found in dense forests in the Assam region of the upper reaches of the Brahmaputra River in northeastern India, the Deccan Plateau in the south, Myanmar, Vietnam, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, southern China, and Hainan Island. The trunk and branches of the primary tree have no smell, but when a small part of the primary tree is subjected to some kind of stimulation due to external injury or other reasons (such as the primary tree falling naturally and being buried in the soil), the resin deposit and condensation occurs only in that part. …

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Japanese:

…乳香と没薬は原樹の切傷から分泌した芳香をもつゴム質の樹脂の塊であるが,沈香木は,密林の中でまれに発見される原樹の枝幹の小部分の木質中に樹脂分が沈着凝集したものである。 沈香木の原樹は,インド北東部ブラフマプトラ川上流のアッサム地方,そして南部のデカン高原,それからミャンマー,ベトナム,タイ,マレー半島,スマトラ,中国南部,海南島などの密林中に,まれに発見されるアキラリア属その他の数種の常緑喬木に生じるものである。原樹の幹や枝にはなんのにおいもないが,原樹の小部分に外傷やその他のこと(原樹が自然に倒れ土中に埋没するなど)で,ある種の刺激が加わると,その部分だけに樹脂分の沈殿凝集を生じる。…

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