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Aquilaria species are tropic and subtropic evergreen trees, (Fig 1. A,B) which are distributed in southeast Asia, mainly in India, Malaysia, Indonesia, Singapore, Vietnam and China.
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Shu-Yuan, Q. (1995). Aquilaria Species: In Vitro Culture and the Production Eaglewood (Agarwood). In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants VIII. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08612-4_3
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