"Is it really red sandalwood?" Han Peacock was surprised and broke a branch. He smelled the slightly fishy aroma and felt even more happy.
Most newly felled sandalwood often has a pungent fragrance and a special fishy smell when smelling it. Therefore, when making incense, it is often necessary to leave it for a period of time until the smell is calm and mellow before use. Some sandalwood has been stored for decades or even hundreds of years.
Sandalwood, the fragrance of sandalwood is already very warm and mellow at this time. It can be said to be the best sandalwood.
This sandalwood tree must be "Old Mountain Sandalwood", which should be a better sandalwood than "Johor Baru Sandalwood".
The sandalwood tree is an evergreen small tree with a height of more than 10 meters. The branches are cylindrical, grey-brown, and striped. They have many lenticels and semicircular leaf scars. The branchlets are slender, light green, and the internodes are slightly swollen.
In addition to this tree, Korean Peacock also looked around. Some leaves are oval and ovate, 4-8 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, with a sharp tip, a wedge-shaped or broad wedge-shaped base, somewhat downward extension, and a wavy edge, slightly outward.
Small trees with folds, white powder on the back, raised midrib on the back, indistinct network veins, and slender petioles were also identified as sandalwood by Korean Peacock.
Looking at the surrounding trees, there are quite a few red sandalwood trees around, but these trees are relatively small, and the largest ones are only as thick as an arm.
These small trees are very strange. Many of them grow on other trees, and they look like they are parasitic on other trees.
The Korean peacock is very clear about this. The Korean peacock knows that sandalwood is a semi-parasitic plant and often grows attached to other plants. If it grows alone, the Korean peacock will doubt his own judgment.
Rosewood is listed as one of the "Three Treasures" of East Timor, which shows that it is produced in large quantities, and also confirms the rumor that sandalwood alone is prosperous. This is entirely due to the growth environment of sandalwood.
As long as the environment in a place is suitable for the growth of sandalwood, a large area can be reproduced. Of course, a large number does not mean a large harvest, as it is now.
The sandalwood tree is a semi-parasitic plant that grows extremely slowly. It usually takes decades to become useful. It is one of the slowest-growing tree species. A mature sandalwood tree can reach a height of ten meters. In East Timor, where it originates, you only need to find one.
, even if you get rich.
"Is this a phoenix tree?" Looking at the red sandalwood saplings growing on a big tree, Han Peacock soon guessed that this might be a phoenix tree.
Poinciana, named after "the leaves are like the feathers of a flying phoenix, and the flowers are like the crown of a red phoenix", is also known as buttercup, jacaranda tree, fire tree, jacaranda, etc. It is a deciduous tree in the Leguminosae family, up to 20 meters high, with a broad crown.
Blooms in summer. Racemes, large, red and shiny flowers, woody pods, up to 50 cm long.
Poinciana is known as one of the most colorful trees in the world due to its bright red or orange flowers and bright green pinnate leaves. In addition, Korean peacocks know several types of trees that sandalwood is parasitic on, so it is not difficult to recognize it.
The Poinciana plant is tall and drooping due to its horizontal spreading crown. It is thick and wide and attracts the wind. It plays the role of a shade tree in tropical areas.
Poinciana loves high temperature and long-day environment, and must be in a sunny location to thrive. It is distributed in southern and southwestern China, and is originally from Madagascar and other tropical places around the world.
The Korean peacock was able to recognize the Phoenix tree at once, not because this tree species is easy to recognize, but because this tree is one of the parasitic tree species of the red sandalwood tree.
The red sandalwood tree, also known as sandalwood, is an ancient, mysterious and rare tree species, a semi-parasitic evergreen tree. What is unique about it is that there are thousands of "suckers" growing on its fibrous roots. These "suckers" tightly
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Sandalwood is very delicate. In its seedling stage, it must parasitize plants such as phoenix tree, red bean tree, and acacia tree to survive.
Now the Korean peacock has discovered the phoenix tree, but are there also red bean trees and acacia trees here?
However, it was too late now. Han Peacock had no intention of searching carefully. No matter what he did, he had to settle down first.
Now the most important thing for Han Peacock is to find a place to stay. Since we have chosen this small valley, we need to create a place to stay first.
The humidity here is too heavy, and the only place to stay is in books, so Han Peacock wants to find a big tree and build a tree house to stay for one night.
After picking a large armful of palm leaves, Han Peacock climbed up to a huge coconut tree in a few seconds and built a simple shack with palm leaves on the top of the tree. This is where he will live tonight.
Living in such a place is definitely uncomfortable, and you have to protect yourself from mosquitoes. The mosquitoes in East Timor are very powerful, so the Korean peacock can't sleep and can only think wildly in the tree.
I don’t know how Liu Xu and the others are doing with their investigation now. Those people are quite capable of breaking through space.
But now the three women all have opinions on how to defend themselves. Han Peacock is not afraid that they will encounter threats, and those who appeared were all sacrificed and died, so even if there are some masters left, there shouldn't be too many.
As a result, there are even fewer organizations that can threaten Liuxu and the others.
No longer worried about Liu Xu and the others, Han Kongque thought of his current plan again. It was not that difficult to do something on this small island. As long as he had money, he could easily achieve Han Kongque's goal by surrounding the city through the countryside.
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This half of the island only has a population of more than one million, and the Chinese account for more than 20,000. With so many Chinese, as long as no one leads ten local natives, they will have an influence of more than 200,000.
With this kind of influence, coupled with Han Peacock's operation, it is not too difficult to occupy the right to speak on a small island.
How to influence the local people depends on money, and what Han Kongque lacks most is money.
Now what Han Peacock was thinking about was how to successfully tie the locals to his chariot, and this required some local resources to operate.
Fruits, vegetables, and even red sandalwood can all be manipulated. If possible, agarwood trees can also be planted here. Although these things take a long time, once they are completed, the economic benefits will be considerable.
Especially for the red sandalwood, this small valley is very secretive. Although it is not large in area, it should be the most original biological structure. As long as Han Peacock studies it carefully tomorrow, there may be unexpected harvests.
However, Han Kongque is still not sure whether Nako Sandalwood is red sandalwood, and sandalwood is divided into white sandalwood, yellow sandalwood, red sandalwood and other categories.
"Those with yellow skin and yellow color are called Dalbergia, those with clean skin and white color are called White Sandalwood, those with purple skin are called Red Sandalwood, and have strong and strong fragrance, while White Sandalwood is superior." This means that White Sandalwood is better for making sandalwood, and it is better to use it for making sandalwood.
When it comes to carving and making furniture, red sandalwood is definitely more popular.
However, if you want to make furniture from the sandalwood here, it will definitely not be possible in a short time. Instead, it is better to make sandalwood, which can be made with small sandalwood saplings of several years old.
Nowadays everyone knows about red sandalwood, but few people know about sandalwood.
In fact, sandalwood is also a good thing. This stuff is known as "sandalwood" in the Buddhist stomach, and is known as the "king of spices" and "green gold".
It is taken from the woody heartwood (or its resin) of the sandalwood tree of the Sandalwood family. The closer to the heart and roots of the tree, the better.
It is often made into wood powder, wood strips, wood blocks, etc. or refined into sandalwood essential oil.
The use of sandalwood to make incense has always been regarded as a treasure. However, sandalwood has a bad smell when burned alone. However, if it can be skillfully combined with other spices, it can "bring the fragrance to a very high level."
Buddhists highly praise sandalwood, so much so that Buddhist temples are often referred to as "sandalwood forest" or "forest of sandalwood".
Buddhists call sandalwood "桴 sandalwood", which means "pleasure" and "please give people pleasure".
As recorded in "Huilin Yinyi": "洴 sandalwood, this cloud is called Yule. It is said that white sandalwood can cure fever, and red sandalwood can remove wind and swelling. These are all the joys that can cure diseases and bring peace to the body, so it is called Yule."
"Red sandalwood" means "red sandalwood". When the red sandalwood is first cut down, the heartwood is bright red or orange-red, and it slowly turns purple after being exposed for a long time, so red sandalwood is also called red sandalwood.
The "Nutou Zhantan" often seen in Buddhist scriptures refers to the best quality white sandalwood produced in Niutoushan, Mociye, in Luzhou, Beiju.
Sandalwood is also an important traditional Chinese medicinal material and has always been valued by doctors. It is said to be "punciant and warm; it returns to the spleen, stomach, heart and lung meridians; it acts as a heart-warmer, appetizer and relieves pain".
External application can reduce inflammation, swelling, and moisturize the skin; fumigation can sterilize and dispel plague.
It can treat sore throat, acne, anti-infection, and anti-asthma. It has the effect of conditioning sensitive skin, preventing skin aging, removing evil spirits, dryness, sterilization, anti-mildew, anti-insect, and anti-moth.
In addition to these sandalwood, it also has the effect of calming nerves, assisting meditation, refreshing and calming the mind.
Sandalwood oil extracted from sandalwood is also widely used in medicine. It has multiple functions such as cooling, astringent, heart strengthening, nourishing, and lubricating the skin. It can be used to treat biliary diseases, cystitis, gonorrhea, abdominal pain, fever, vomiting and other illnesses.
, it is particularly effective for cracks, rich hands, dark spots, mosquito bites and other symptoms. It has been an important medicine for treating skin diseases since ancient times.
Things that can be called "green gold" are naturally good things, and now Han Peacock has discovered a small piece of phoenix forest. As long as there is this piece of phoenix tree, there will definitely be a second piece and a third piece.
In this way, promoting the planting of red sandalwood and white sandalwood in large areas will no longer be a problem.
After thinking about it, Han Peacock still fell asleep. After all, too many things happened today. No matter how powerful Han Peacock is, he still needs to relax when he relaxes.
When the Korean peacock opened its eyes again, it was already bright. This night, the Korean peacock was not besieged by mosquitoes. I don’t know why.
There is no mobile phone, and Han Kongque never wears a watch, so Han Kongque doesn't know what time it is.
When jumping off the coconut tree, the Korean peacock did not forget to pick off a leaf, and stabbed it into the inside of the coconut with a sharp branch. The Korean peacock faced the small hole and sucked the juice inside.
After drinking the coconut juice of a whole coconut in one breath, Han Kongque took a long breath, which was considered to have solved the problem of breakfast. (To be continued.)