New Sandalwood Natural White Sandalwood Sulfur-free Sandalwood Real Sandalwood

Morphological characteristics

An evergreen small tree, about 10 meters high; branches are cylindrical, gray-brown, striped, with many lenticels and semicircular leaf scars; twigs are slender, light green, and internodes are slightly swollen. Leaves are elliptic-ovate, membranous, 4-8 cm long, 2-4 cm wide, with sharp apex, cuneate or broad cuneate base, more or less decurrent, wavy margins, slightly folded outward, with white powder on the back, midrib raised on the back, about 10 pairs of lateral veins, and inconspicuous reticulate veins; petioles are slender, 1-1.5 cm long. The trifurcated cymose panicle is axillary or terminal, 2.5-4 cm long; there are 2 bracts, tiny, located at the base of the inflorescence, awl-lanceolate, 2.5-3 mm long, caducous; the peduncle is 2-5 cm long; the pedicel is 2-4 mm long, with fine stripes; the flower is 4-4.5 mm long and 5-6 mm in diameter; the perianth is bell-shaped, about 2 mm long, light green; the perianth is 4-lobed, the lobes are ovate-triangular, 2-2.5 mm long, initially green-yellow inside, then dark brown-red; there are 4 stamens, about 2.5 mm long, extending outward; the lobes of the disk are ovate, about 1 mm long; the style is 3 mm long, dark red, and the stigma is shallowly 3 (-4) lobed. The drupe is 1-1.2 cm long and about 1 cm in diameter. The exocarp is juicy and fleshy, dark purple to purple-black when mature, with a slightly flat top. The perianth scar is 5-6 mm in diameter, the persistent stylopodium is more or less raised, and the endocarp has 3-4 longitudinal ridges. Flowering period is May-June, and fruiting period is July-September.

Distribution area

It is cultivated in Guangdong and Taiwan. It is native to the Pacific Islands and is now cultivated most in India.