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Source: Google Books: CRC World Dictionary (Regional names)

Sandal tree in English is the name of a plant defined with Santalum album in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Sirium myrtifolium L. (among others).

Example references for further research on medicinal uses or toxicity (see latin names for full list):

· Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland. (1810)
· Proceedings of the Indian Science Congress Association (1982)
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ (1832)
· Species Plantarum (1753)
· Flora Indica, or ‘Descriptions of Indian Plants’ (1820)
· Hortus Bengalensis, or ‘a Catalogue of the Plants Growing in the Hounourable East India Company's Botanical Garden at Calcutta’ (1814)

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