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Pterocarpus santalinus
Sandalwood San"dal*wood, n. [F. sandal, santal, fr. Ar. [,c]andal, or Gr. sa`ntalon; both ultimately fr. Skr. candana. Cf. Sanders.] (Bot.) (a) The highly perfumed yellowish heartwood of an East Indian and Polynesian tree (Santalum album), and of several other trees of the same genus, as the Hawaiian Santalum Freycinetianum and S. pyrularium, the Australian S. latifolium, etc. The name is extended to several other kinds of fragrant wood. (b) Any tree of the genus Santalum, or a tree which yields sandalwood. (c) The red wood of a kind of buckthorn, used in Russia for dyeing leather (Rhamnus Dahuricus). False sandalwood, the fragrant wood of several trees not of the genus Santalum, as Ximenia Americana, Myoporum tenuifolium of Tahiti. Red sandalwood, a heavy, dark red dyewood, being the heartwood of two leguminous trees of India (Pterocarpus santalinus, and Adenanthera pavonina); -- called also red sanderswood, sanders or saunders, and rubywood.
Pterocarpus santalinus
Redwood Red"wood` (-w[oo^]d`), n. (Bot.) (a) A gigantic coniferous tree (Sequoia sempervirens) of California, and its light and durable reddish timber. See Sequoia. (b) An East Indian dyewood, obtained from Pterocarpus santalinus, C[ae]salpinia Sappan, and several other trees. Note: The redwood of Andaman is Pterocarpus dalbergioides; that of some parts of tropical America, several species of Erythoxylum; that of Brazil, the species of Humirium.

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- Pterocarpus santalinus (red sandal) in north coastal Andhra Pradesh Algum Adenanthera pavonina Pushpa: The Rise Ahmedullah, M. (2021). "Pterocarpus santalinus"....
- narra. The west African species may be traded as African rosewood. P. santalinus also yields the most precious red sandalwood in China known as Zitan....
- possesses some rare and endemic plants like Cycas beddomei, Pterocarpus santalinus, Terminalia pallida, Syzygium alternifolium, S****a tumburgia etc. The...
- African sandalwood Osyris tenuifolia – east African sandalwood Pterocarpus santalinus – false red sandalwood growing in southern Indian regions Producing commercially...
- are traditional dolls made specifically of red sandalwood (Pterocarpus santalinus) or silk-cotton-wood (Bombax) or red wood (Sequoioideae) which are displa****...
- found in the MPCA. It is home to highly endangered species Pterocarpus santalinus the Rakta chandana and Gloriosa superba. The most important are Hollorhina...
- Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) 758 Pterocarpus: padauks Pterocarpus santalinus red sanders; red sandalwood Fabaceae (legume family (peas)) Pterocarpus...
- psalteries. It is probably the red sandal-wood of India (Pterocarpus santalinus). This tree belongs to the natural order Leguminosæ, sub-order Papilionaceæ...
- as some think, the wood likely would be red sandalwood or Pterocarpus santalinus. Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article "Algum"...
- Red Sandalwood (Red Sanders, रक्तचंदन Rakta Chandana) -- Pterocarpus santalinus Toothbrush Tree (Arak, Galenia asiatica, Peelu, Pilu, Salvadora indica...