It grows in dry and deciduous forests.
Wood sandal tree leaf.
From one acre land normally you will expect 5000 kg yield of sandalwood crop.
It is an evergreen and parasitic or semi parasitic medium sized tree and grows up to 20m high.
The wood is not aromatic.
Sandalwood any semiparasitic plant of the genus santalum family santalaceae especially the fragrant wood of the true or white sandalwood santalum album.
Sandalwood oil is extracted from the woods for use.
Medicinal plants sandalwood uses and images.
The tree is not to be confused with the aromatic santalum sandalwood trees that develop natively in south india.
The sandalwood tree connects its root system to that of the host tree in order to get the nutrients it needs.
Ideally you should plant your sandalwood next to an already established host species such as long lived wattles acacia trees or casuarinas a genus of tropical evergreens including ironwoods and sheoaks.
Pterocarpus santalinus with the common names red sanders red saunders red sandalwood rakt chandan and saunderswood is a species of pterocarpus endemic to the southern eastern ghats mountain range of south india.
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The approximately 10 species of santalum are distributed throughout southeastern asia and the islands of the south pacific.
The wood at the center of the trunk heartwood is used as medicine.
While there are over 100 species of sandalwood plants most varieties are native to india hawaii or australia.
The tree wood is not aromatic.
Sandalwood is often cited as one of the most expensive woods in the world.
Red sandalwood is a tree and the wood at the center of the trunk heartwood is used as medicine.
Sandalwood has a truckload of religious value.
Sandalwood is a class of woods from trees in the genus santalum the woods are heavy yellow and fine grained and unlike many other aromatic woods they retain their fragrance for decades.
Overview information red sandalwood is a tree.
Red sandalwood is valued for the rich red color of its wood.
The cost of sandalwood tree heart wood is 6 000 rs kg.
Sandalwood is a fragrant and tropical tree and it has been in use since time immemorial.
Sandalwood santalum sp is a large shrub or tree hardy in zones 10 11.
Depending on variety and location sandalwood may grow as 10 foot tall 3 m shrubs or.
This tree is valued for the rich red colour of its wood.
