WHITE SANDALWOOD

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1)  White sandalwood is an evergreen tree. The oil from the wood and the wood are used as medicine. Don’t confuse white sandalwood with red sandalwood.
People use white sandalwood for the common coldbronchitisvaginalinfectionsbladder infections, and many other conditions, but there is no good scientific evidence to support these uses.In food and beverages, white sandalwood is used as flavouring.In manufacturing, white sandalwood oil is used as a fragrance in soaps, cosmetics, and perfumes.

2) White sandalwood is a small tropical tree and the traditional source of sandalwood oil.  It is native to southern India and Southeast Asia.  Producing commercially valuable sandalwood with high levels of fragrance oils requires Indian sandalwood trees to be a minimum of 8-10 years old – the yield, quality and volume are still to be clearly understood. Yield of oil tends to vary depending on the age and location of the tree; usually, the older trees yield the highest oil content and quality.

3) The economic value of Santalum album L. arises from the oil present in heartwood of older age classes. However the value of the tree in terms of heartwood and oil content when grown outside its natural distribution range is not well known. Six girth classes of sandalwood trees were selected to estimate heartwood percent and oil yield for all the four locations viz. Assam (Diphu) and Karnataka. Core samples were taken at the level of breast height (1.76 m) using Haglof increment borer and oil content was estimated by simple hexane extract method. From the current study it was observed that the sample trees from all the locations showed heartwood initiation at the girth class 41-50 cm. More than 50% heartwood was noticed in the girth class of trees 51-60 cm and 70% heartwood in the girth class 71-80 cm and the oil content of these trees were around 1.5 to 3.0 %. Maximum oil content of 4% was noticed in the trees of girth class 91-100 cm. The rate of heartwood formation, trend of increase in heartwood and oil content percent from the Assam populations showed more or less similar pattern to the populations found in Karnataka. Key words: Assam, Heartwood, Karnataka, Oil content, Santalum album Journal of Bio resources.

4) Indian Sandalwood grows well under the rainfall conditions of 500-2000 mm and at the elevations of 600-1200 m. It can also grow beyond these ranges, but under high rainfall conditions the growth is rapid yet with heartwood formation being slow. Sandalwood is an evergreen tree which can grow upto a height of 20-25 meters and attain a girth of 1.5 to 2.5 81 C. Sandeep et al., 2016 Heartwood and oil content of Santalum album meters. It starts flowering two times in a year during March-April and September-October with seed production being good in September-October season. Certain trees flower once in a year and some twice in a year and the quantity of seed production from a tree may also vary from season to season. Distribution of East Indian sandalwood extends from 30o N to 40o S from Indonesia in the east to Juan Fernandez Islands (Chile) in the west and from Hawaiian Archipelago in the north to New Zealand to the south. Sandalwood although requires 82 good drainage and does not stand water logged ground, but the best growth of tree is on rich fairly moist soil as garden loam and well drained deep alluvia. um on the river banks.