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Borneo (Malaysian Borneo: Sarawak)
Sarawak, on Malaysian Borneo, is the page’s point for oud: Aquilaria malaccensis is the primary source of premium agarwood in Southeast Asia.
No harvest season is given: agarwood is not a seasonal crop. The point on the globe is Wikidata’s point for Sarawak, not a forest.
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The record
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- Place
- Borneo (Malaysian Borneo: Sarawak)
documented
GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to the English Wikipedia… · read 2026-09-27
the place name as the house’s harvest table spells it; the Wikidata item is Q170462 (Sarawak)
confidence A
- Region
- not on record
not on record
no growing region in Sarawak is named in a filed source; GC-13 says Southeast Asia
- Country
- Malaysia
documented
GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to the English Wikipedia… · read 2026-09-27
confidence A
- Coordinates
- 2.5, 113 (a representative point for Sarawak (Wikidata P625), not a forest)
documented
Wikidata Q170462 (Sarawak) P625
GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to the English Wikipedia… · read 2026-09-27
confidence A
- Time zone
- Asia/Kuching
documented
MY +0133+11020 Asia/Kuching
TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) · read 2026-09-27
confidence A
- Traditions
- not on record
not on record
no source on agarwood gathering in Sarawak is filed
- Wikidata
- Q170462
documented
Sarawak
WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation) · read 2026-09-30
the Wikidata item’s English label; the item whose coordinates (P625) the record’s pin already reads (GEO-1); its English label is quoted
confidence A
- Harvest, as a source states it
- Grows here
Films and plates
- OR-2 · oud: the origin film (the field to the bench) · queued: the master queue lists OR-2 as queued (the render queue’s list, read 2026-09-30); no path until it is rendered and published
a render-time texture (Forest Floor; a render input only): "Forest Floor", eye-candy.xyz (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0; a render-time texture (Bark Willow 02; a render input only): "Bark Willow 02", Charlotte Baglioni (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0
Claims register
Every sentence and number the site states about this record, with its status after the 2026-09-27 review.
- removed · (removed) (was: Harvest · Year-round · Rare Old Growth)
unsourced · the claims register
the page now says “Harvest season not stated here , no dated source yet” (the harvest rows of the house’s harvest table, the house’s review); agarwood is not a seasonal crop and no filed source gives a season
- softened · Wild Aquilaria is now scarce and its trade is regulated. Much of today’s oud comes from cultivated trees in which the infection is induced by hand. Wild oud from Assam or Borneo, aged naturally over decades, remains one of the costliest raw materials in any industry, and the grades prized in Japan as kyara are rarer still. (was: the retired wording is kept in the claims register (row 2262))
documented · the claims register
GC-13 · Baig et al. (2025). Agarwood in the Modern Era: Integrating Biotechnology and Pharmacology for Sustainable Use · read 2026-09-30
“its trade is regulated”: CITES Appendix II for all Aquilaria spp. (CITES-1; GC-13); “induced by hand”: GC-13 (GC-13); GC-13: “The resin takes 25–30 years to form naturally” (GC-13): “decades” is supported; the old spans (20–100, 30–50 years) only in part. “Much of today’s oud”, “one of the costliest” and “kyara” have no filed source. the house’s review (2026-09-30, the copy pass): “Laos” dropped from the sentence, because Species+ does not list A. malaccensis for Laos (CITES-1); Assam (India) and Borneo (Indonesia, Malaysia) are in its distribution
where the site says it: /materials, “Aquilaria malaccensis”
confidence B
Sources
- GC-13 · Baig A, Akram A, Lin MK. Agarwood in the Modern Era: Integrating Biotechnology and Pharmacology for Sustainable Use. International Journal of Molecular Sciences 2025;26(17):8468. DOI 10.3390/ijms26178468. PMID 40943390. PMCID PMC12428735. doi.org/10.3390/ijms26178468 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY 4.0
- GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to the English Wikipedia article of each place; wbgetentities API, read 2026-09-27. Values rounded to 5 decimals by the fetch script; representative points (city, region or country centroid), not field locations. www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&… · read 2026-09-27 · CC0 1.0
- TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); public domain. data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/zone.tab · read 2026-09-27 · public domain
- WD-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation): the items named on each record (each statement read with its references), read 2026-09-30. www.wikidata.org · read 2026-09-30 · CC0 1.0
- CITES-1 · UNEP (2026). Aquilaria malaccensis. The Species+ Website. Nairobi, Kenya. Compiled by UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, UK. Available at: www.speciesplus.net (taxon concept 24742; the CITES and EU listings). Accessed 2026-09-30. speciesplus.net/species#/taxon_concepts/24742/le… · read 2026-09-30 · no reuse licence stated (Species+ terms: citation required, reuse restricted); short quotes and single facts only, under fair use (quoted, not reproduced)
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this record as data: /data/origin/sarawak-my.json · version 3 · updated 2026-10-01 · confidence B
