Sandalwood is the common name of many species of plants and their wood and oils.
The sandalwood family, Santalaceae, which includes: True sandalwoods, of the genus Santalum, particularly several commercially harvested species that provide sandalwood timber: Santalum album, white or Indian sandalwood, Santalum ellipticum, coast sandalwood Santalum freycinetianum, Hawaiian sandalwood Santalum lanceolatum, Northern sandalwood (also Northern sandalbox) Santalum spicatum, Australian sandalwood Sandalwood oil, oil derived from Santalum album or Santulum spicatum
Various unrelated plants with similarly-scented wood or oil: Adenanthera pavonina, sandalwood tree; red, false red sandalwood Baphia nitida, camwood, also known as African sandalwood Eremophila mitchellii, sandalwood; false sandalwood (also sandalbox) Myoporum platycarpum, sandalwood; false sandalwood Myoporum sandwicense, bastard sandalwood; false sandalwood Osyris lanceolata, African sandalwood Osyris tenuifolia, east African sandalwood Pterocarpus santalinus, red sandalwood
Other uses
Kannada cinema, also known as Sandalwood cinema, films known as the cinema of Karnataka Sandalwood, a neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida Sandalwood Heights Secondary School, a public high school in Brampton, Ontario, Canada Sandalwood High School, a public high school in Jacksonville, Florida Sandalwood Island, former name of Sumba Sandalwood Island, former name of Vanua Levu Sandalwood Pony, a horse from the Indonesian islands of Sumba and Sumbawa Sandalwood, South Australia, a town USS Sandalwood (AN-32), an Aloe-class net laying ship
See also Sandal (disambiguation) Chandan (disambiguation) and Chandana (disambiguation), Sanskrit word for sandalwood and also the origin of "sandal" in the name