Indian sandalwood

Scientific name of Indian sandalwood: Santalum album

Name of Indian sandalwood in different languages:

Sanskrit: Sreekhandam, Swethachandanam

Hindi: Chandan

Malayalam: Chandana ചന്ദനം

Useful plant parts: heartwood, oil

Plant description of Indian sandalwood

India sandalwood (Santalum album) is an evergreen tree, erect, that grows at a height of up to 9 meters. It grows with other trees’ roots as parasites. Leaves are bright green, thin, oppositely arranged, and ovate to lanceolate. Flowers are borne in clusters at the branch end, maroon in color, and five petals. Fruits or berries are red when ripe, is produced after three years, the heartwood is the useful part, pale green to white in color.

Leaf Arrangement

Shape-Elongated	Margin-Entire	Venation-Reticulate

Medicinal uses:

Skin diseases, cough, jaundice

How to prepare medicines:

Indian sandalwood is one of the ingredients in Ayurveda medicines like-