Sandalwood (disambiguation)

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Sandalwood is the common name of many species of plants and their wood and oils.

  • The sandalwood family, Santalaceae, which includes:
    • True sandalwoods, of the genus Santalum, particularly several commercially harvested species that provide sandalwood timber:
      • Santalum album, white or Indian sandalwood,
      • Santalum ellipticum, coast sandalwood
      • Santalum freycinetianum, Hawaiian sandalwood
      • Santalum lanceolatum, Northern sandalwood (also Northern sandalbox)
      • Santalum spicatum, Australian sandalwood
    • Sandalwood oil, oil derived from Santalum album or Santulum spicatum
  • Various unrelated plants with similarly-scented wood or oil:
    • Adenanthera pavonina, sandalwood tree; red, false red sandalwood
    • Baphia nitida, camwood, also known as African sandalwood
    • Eremophila mitchellii, sandalwood; false sandalwood (also sandalbox)
    • Myoporum platycarpum, sandalwood; false sandalwood
    • Myoporum sandwicense, bastard sandalwood; false sandalwood
    • Osyris lanceolata, African sandalwood
    • Osyris tenuifolia, east African sandalwood
    • Pterocarpus santalinus, red sandalwood

Other uses

See also

  • Sandal (disambiguation)
  • Chandan (disambiguation) and Chandana (disambiguation), Sanskrit word for sandalwood and also the origin of "sandal" in the name
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