The wood which is more expensive than diamonds!
There are some plants that are used to make natural perfume. The species is better known as agarwood. This tree is also planted commercially. This type of tree is made of dark-brown ‘agar wood’ by infecting the fungus in a special process. If such ‘agarwood’ is found in the wild, its price increases manifold. Even in terms of price, it can surpass diamonds. One such type of agarwood is the Japanese 'Kinam'. One gram has been sold for $10000!
Kinam is basically not the name of a tree. ‘Kinam wood’ can be made in a natural way from 15 species of trees of the genus Aquilaria. Finding that wood in the forest means finding hidden treasure. This is because the essential oil that is collected from Kinam is considered to be the rarest and most expensive of all the perfumes in the world. In Shan...