Wood Specimen's Information:  

 
  Museum Floor  &  Size of Specimens :

First Floor, Timber Section
  Specimen's Access Number :

CBRw011
  Binomial Name of Specimen :

Santalum album
  Specimen's Collector Name :

 
  Specimen's Collection Area :

South Vellore, Tamil Nadu
 

Specimen's Collection Date

 :

 
  Specimen's Collection Country :

India
  Specimen's Collection Continent :

Asia
  Number of Specimen Available :

3
  Whether it is available for mutual exchange :

Yes
Scientific Classification of Wood Specimen:  

 
  Kingdom :

Plantae
  Division :

Magnoliophyta
 

Class

 :

Magnoliopsida
  Order :

Santalales
  Family :

Santalaceae
  Genus :

Santalum
  Subgenus :

 
  Species :

Santalum album
 

Author of Species

 :

Carl Linnaeus
  Common/Trade Name :

Sandalwood
  Vernacular Name :

Arabic: Sandal Abyad

Bengali: Chandan, Srikhanda

English: Chandana, East Indian Sandalwood, Sandalwood, Sandalwood Tree, White Sandalwood, White Saunders, Yellow Sandalwood, Yellow Saunders

French: Bois Santal, Santal Blanc, Santal Des Indes

German: Sandelholzbaum

India: Chandan

Italian: Sandalo

Portuguese: Sândalo-Branco

Sanskrit: Chandana

Spanish: Sándalo, Sándalo Blanco, Sándalo Indias Orientales, Sándalo Blanco

Swedish: Sandelträd

Tamil: Sandanam, Ulocidam
  Distribution of Species :

Australia, Hawaii, India, South pacific, Sri Lanka
 

Uses

 :

Santalum album has been the primary source of sandalwood and the derived oil.
  Normal Picture of Specimens :

 
  Anatomical Picture of Specimens :

 

 

 

 

 

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