gaharu ( valuable plan )

Gaharu is a kind of timber with different shape and color of the special, and have a fragrant resin matrix measure, comes from a tree or part of gaharu tree that grows naturally and has been dead, as a result of the infections that occur either naturally or are made on the tree , and generally occur on the tree Aguilaria sp. (Local name: Karas, Alim, garu and others).

gaharu wood gaharu powder is produced from the process of crushing or grinding gaharu wood residue or cleaning currycomb. Gaharu resin is a kind of solid resin and software, which comes from the tree or the tree of gaharu, with a strong aroma, and marked by a dark brown color.
Kemedangan is wood that comes from the tree or the tree of gaharu, has a fragrant resin matrix with the aroma is weak, marked by the color white to grayish kecoklat-coklatan, fibrous rough, and the wood luna.

Gaharu grouped into three (3) sortimen, namely gubal gaharu, kemedangan and gray gaharu.

Determining the quality gaharu wood is the assessment of the size, color, shape, the fiber, weight of wood, and the aroma of wood gaharu tested. Meanwhile, gaharu to ashes with the rate of color and aroma.

1. Assessment of the size of gaharu wood, is a way to measure the length, width and thick, in accordance with the terms of the quality in Table 2.
2. Assessment of the color of wood ash and gaharu is to assess the color too, older wood color, indicating the higher the resin matrix.
3. Assessment of the womb and aromanya fragrant resin is a way of cutting a small wood gaharu or take sejumput gray gaharu, and membakarnya. Gynecology fragrant resin that can be higher than the burning of wood or gaharu is gray and roll out a fragrant aroma and strong.
4. Assessment of the gaharu wood fiber, is the rate and density of wood fiber. Wood fiber that meeting, dense, smooth and slippery, quality is higher than that in the fiber and less rough.

Gynecology chemical found in gaharu is a component that consists of sesquiterpenes, sesquiter-pene alcohol, kompoun oxygenated and chromone. In addition, it also consists of components agarospiral, jinkohol-eramol, jinkool that produce gaharu aroma.

Karas the use of wood in the wood industry where wood is used in making industrial box, ply board, cenderamata, furniture, women’s sandals, slip weapons, chopstick and others. When kegunaaan gaharu many religious ceremonies to China, Unanai, Ayurvedic and folk ritual in Tibet. He used the house as pengharum in the Middle East when the Papua New Guinea to use it as ubat-ubatan by traditional communities. At the time he participated now used as perfume and cosmetics.

Posted By Fadil Antifidia
reference : balikayana.com

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