sandalwood trees
Fragrant tropical plants
Sandalwood trees are slow-growing evergreens native to South and Southeast Asia, prized for their fragrant heartwood.
The wood yields an aromatic oil used in perfumes, incense, and traditional medicine.
Sandalwood has been traded for thousands of years, making it one of the most valuable woods in the world: The temple smelled of sandalwood.
- perfume industrySector producing scented products
- host plantsSpecies sustaining dependent organisms
- essential oilsConcentrated plant-derived aromatics
- aromatherapyTherapeutic use of plant essences
- soil nutrientsElements feeding plant roots
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