Sandalwood Tree, Famous for Fragrance

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CONTENTS:

1. Taxonomy

2. Introduction

3. Origin & Geographical distribution

4. Botanical Description

5. Biology

6. Cytogenetics

(Karyotype of Diploid)

(Karyotype of Polyploid)

7. Scope in Pakistan

8. Problems

9. Products

10. Services

11. Uses

SANDALWOOD

Kingdom:Plantae

Order:Santalales

Genus:Santalum

Species:album, spicatum,paniculatum etc

Family:Santalaceae

Chromosome no.2n=2x=20

2n=4x=40

Other names:Fragrant sandalwood, Indian sandalwood, Australian sandalwood, White Saunders, Yellow Saunders

Extraction:Steam distillation

INTRODUCTION:

Sandalwood tree is famous for fragrance. Its tree has aromatic woods. There are twenty five species of santalum in the world. Santalum album (Indian sandalwood) and Santalum spicatum (Australian sandalwood) are the most important species of santalum genus.

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION

Centre of origin:Santalum album - India

Santalum spicatum - Australia

Other countries:Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri-lanka, Hawaii and pacific islands.

Santalum album

YOUNG SAPLING SEEDS

BOTANICAL DESCRIPTION:

Santalum album is an evergreen tree.It grows upto 4m in Australia but in India it grows taller and gains height upto 20m and width is upto 2.4m. Its bark has different colors like dark brown, reddish, dark grey or blackish and it is smooth in young trees but rough in older trees.

Medicinal parts:

The medicinal parts are the oil extracted from the trunk wood, the heartwood freed from the sapwood & the bark, and the dried wood.

Flower and Fruit:

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USES OF SANDALWOOD

1. Infections of the urinary tract.

2. Chniese use sandalwood for chest pain vomiting.

3. Used to clear skin from black heads and spots.

4. Aromapathy

5. Soap and perfume industry.

6. In Sufi tradition, sandalwood paste is applied on Sufi’s grave.

7. Chess pieces

8. Incesne powder or agarbati.

9. Fever,coughing,skin diseases.

10. Twigs for burning purpose.

REFERENCES:

o Bhattacharjee S.K, 1998, Handbook of MEDICINAL PLANTS, Pointer Publisher Jaipur, India.

o PDR for Herbal medicines (Fourth Edition)

o Evans W.C. 1934, Trease and Evans Pharmacognosy, WB Saunders Company Limited 1996, Harcourt Publishers Limited 1999, Harcourt Publishers Limited 2002, Elsevier Science Limited 2002.

o Santalum album_pdf

www.caryologia.unifi.it/past_volumes/63_2/1573.pdf

www.essentialoils.co.za/essential-oils/sandalwood.htm

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