White Sandalwood
Santalum album · Santalaceae · 백단향
Look
- Leaves
- Leathery elliptic to ovate-elliptic leaves, opposite or subopposite, glossy dark green above and paler beneath, with wavy margins.
- Flowers
- Fragrant flowers open creamy white and turn rose to crimson or reddish brown as they mature; the tepal lobes are reflexed.
- Fruit
- Nearly globose false drupes (about 7 x 8 mm) ripen dark red to black; seeds are spherical.
- Bark
- Young twigs are smooth and angular; bark of older branches is rough and cracked with narrow transverse fissures.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native from Java to the Timor islands.