spicatum is used by aromatherapists and perfumers. paniculatum are relatively common today, they have not regained their former abundance or size, and S. haleakalae, occurs only in subalpine areas and was never exported). These three species were exploited between 17 before the supply of trees ran out (a fourth species, S. paniculatum, the Hawaiian sandalwood ( ʻiliahi), were also used and considered high quality. Sandalwood oil prices have risen to $3000 per liter recently. Although sandalwood trees in India, Pakistan, and Nepal are government-owned and their harvest is controlled, many trees are illegally cut down. In India, the principal sandal tracts are most parts of Karnataka and adjoining districts of Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. The main distribution is in the drier tropical regions of India and the Indonesian islands of Timor and Sumba. album is a threatened species indigenous to Southeast Asia and Southern India. These are found in India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Australia, Indonesia, Hawaii, and other Pacific Islands, Australian sandalwood ( Santalum spicatum) is marketed as the notable members of this group today by merchants because of its stable sources others in the genus also have fragrant wood. Although the sandalwood album ( Santalum album) is still considered have the best and original quality in terms of religion and alternative medicine. before the commercialization of sandalwood plantation ( Santalum spicatum) in Australia and China. The sandalwood of peninsular India and Malay Archipelago as the primary trading center of that time, supported most consumption of sandalwood in East Asia and West Asia during Incense trade route. It spread to other regions through Incense trade route by the vast Indian and Arab mercantile networks and the Chinese maritime trade routes until the sixteenth century CE.

Sandalwood is indigenous to the tropical belt of the peninsular India, Malay Archipelago and northern Australia. Sandalwoods are medium-sized hemiparasitic trees, and part of the same botanical family as European mistletoe. The sandalwood is indigenous to the tropical belt of the peninsular India, Malay Archipelago and northern Australia The main distribution is in the drier tropical regions of India and the Indonesian islands of Timor and Sumba. It arrived in English via Late Greek, Medieval Latin and Old French in the 14th or 15th century. Etymologically it is ultimately derived from Sanskrit चन्दनं Chandana ( čandana), meaning 'wood for burning incense' and related to candrah, 'shining, glowing' and the Latin candere, to shine or glow. The nomenclature and the taxonomy of the genus are derived from this species' historical and widespread use.

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