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Friends of the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden - Plants: Sandalwood, Santalum spicatum
<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en"><head><meta charset="utf-8"><link rel="canonical" href="http://www.australian-aridlands-botanic-garden.org/general/plants/p_spec/sawo.htm"><title>Friends of the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden - Plants: Sandalwood, Santalum spicatum</title><meta name="keywords" content="Plant, Botany, Australia, Arid, Sandalwood, Santalum spicatum"><meta name="Category" content="Plant, Botany, Australia, Arid, Sandalwood, Santalum spicatum"><meta name="description" content="Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden - Brief description of the plant Sandalwood, Santalum spicatum"><meta name="robots" content="follow,index,noarchive"></head><body text="#990000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" link="#990000" vlink="#990000"><center><h2><a name="top" id="top"></a> <font face="Arial">Plants <b>at the AALBG</b></font></h2></center> <center><font face="Arial"><b>Sandalwood <i>(Santalum spicatum)</i></b></font><p><font face="Arial"><b></b></font></p><table border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"><tr><td valign="top"><p><font size="-1" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Sandalwood varies from a small bushy shrub to a small tree growing about 4m high. Whilst it has its own extensive root system, it also parasitises the roots of other plants to obtain vital moisture and nutrients. In early years of European settlement in South Australia the fragrant wood was exploited and exported to Asia to produce fragrant oils. Isolated remnants remain in SA and it is very rare in the Roxby Downs region. Tiny insignificant flowers produce an inedible brown fruit, similar in appearance to the quandong.</font></p><p><font size="-1" face="Arial"> Distribution of the Sandalwood in Australia.</font></p><p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/general/plants/p_spec/images/tree_shr/sawo_m.jpg" width="95" height="86" alt="Map"></p></td><td valign="top"><p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/general/plants/p_spec/images/tree_shr/sawo.jpg" width="272" height="236" alt="Sandalwood" border="0"></p></td></tr><tr><td><p><a href="/general/plants/p_trshr.htm"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/images/top.jpg" width="20" height="20" x-claris-useimagewidth="" x-claris-useimageheight="" border="0" align="bottom"></a> <a href="/general/plants/p_spec/embu.htm"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/images/left.jpg" width="20" height="20" border="0" alt="next"></a> <a href="/general/plants/p_spec/ncp.htm"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/images/right.jpg" width="20" height="20" border="0" alt="next"></a></p></td><td><p></p></td></tr></table><p></p><p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" src="/images/line1px.jpg" width="220" height="1"><br><font size="-2" face="Arial">漏 Friends of the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden</font></p></center><p> </p><p></p><script>try{var piwikTracker=Piwik.getTracker(pkBaseURL+"piwik.php",2);piwikTracker.trackPageView();piwikTracker.enableLinkTracking();}catch(err){}</script></body></html>