Tongkat Ali: A root that takes 15 years to mature

Eurycoma longifolia takes 7-15 years to reach harvestable maturity in the wild. This makes it one of the slowest-growing commercially relevant botanicals. Wild-harvesting is decimating Malaysian and Indonesian forests. The cultivation challenge is a supply bottleneck, but also a natural scarcity premium.Publications of interest:https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10780575/https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6274257/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20434529/