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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