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Scientific Name : Santalum album L.

Category : Angiosperms
Status : Alive

Habit : A small evergreen glabrous tree with slender drooping branches with sap-wood white and odorless, the heart-wood yellowish brown, strongly scented. Leaves : Elliptic-lanceolate, subacute glabrous, entire thin, base acute, petiolate, petioles slender. Inflorescence :Terminal and axillary paniculate cymes. Flowers : Brownish-purple, inodorous, perianth campanulate, limb of 4 velvet triangular-segments, stamens 4, exserted, alternating with 4 rounded obtuse scales. Fruit : Drupes globose, purple-black, endocarp hard ribbed. Flowering and Fruiting Time : March - August Significance : Wood ground up with water into a paste, is applied to local inflammations, to temples in fever, in skin diseases, to allay heat and pruritus. It acts as diaphoretic. In cases of morbid thirst wood-powder is taken in coconut water. A bolus of ground sandal cheeks-hemoptysis in mild form. Essential oil from wood is used in perfumery and is a remedy as demulcent, diuretic and mild stimulant in gonorrhea and chronic cystitis. Oil from the seeds is used in skin diseases.

Specimen Information

  • Common Name(s):

    चंदन, Indian sandalwood

  • Synonym(s):

    Santalum ellipticum Zipp. ex Span. Santalum myrtifolium (L.) Roxb. Santalum ovatum R.Br. Sirium myrtifolium L.

  • Family:

    Santalaceae

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    Botany Department (DVP College, Nimgaon Sawa)

  • Created On:

    29-08-2022

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    Email: [email protected]

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