Incense tree
Aquilaria sinensis (Lour.) Spreng.
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 13 m
- wide
- 12 m
Thymelaeaceae
Formerly Agallochum grandiflorum, Agallochum sinense, Aquilaria grandiflora, Ophispermum sinense
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SE. China to HainanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 6.0 m to 20 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Spread
- 12 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- GreenRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -1.1 °C (USDA zone 10a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: light, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (2)
- Chinese
- 土沉香, 沉香, 土沉香（白木香）
- Simplified Chinese
- 土沉香, 沉香, 女儿香
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Aquilaria sinensis (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
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