Red Sanders and Santalum Sandalwood
What is the news?
The Chittoor police seized red sanders logs and a car at a forest location near Nendragunta cross, and arrested Praveen Kumar, a youth from Arakkonam in Tamil Nadu. The value of the logs is said to be about ₹1.5 crore in international market.
About Red Sanders
- Pterocarpus santalinus, the common names include red sanders, red sandalwood, and saunderswood.
- It is a species of Pterocarpus endemic to the southern Eastern Ghats mountain range of South India.
- This tree is valued for the rich red color of its wood.
- The wood is not aromatic.
- The tree is not to be confused with the aromatic Santalum sandalwood trees that grow natively in South India.
- Due to its slow growth and rarity, furniture made from it is difficult to find and can be expensive.
- It has been one of the most prized woods for millennia.
Santalum Sandalwood
- Sandalwood is a class of woods from trees in the genus Santalum.
- The woods are heavy, yellow, and fine-grained, and unlike many other aromatic woods, they retain their fragrance for decades.
- Sandalwood oil is extracted from the woods for use.
- Sandalwood is the second-most expensive wood in the world, after African blackwood.
- Both the wood and the oil produce a distinctive fragrance that has been highly valued for centuries.