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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenanthera_pavonina
http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Red%20Sandalwood.
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http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/51496/#b
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http://www.naturia.per.sg/buloh/plants/saga_tree.htm
Photography Locations
Rashtrpathi Nilayam Hyderabad;
Singapore Botanical Garden
http://www.jedmaxseeds.com.au/products-page/seed-earrings/redbead-seed-adenanthera-pavonina-earrings-17c/
http://pravinsworld.blogspot.in/2010/03/manjadikkuru-lucky-redseed-known-as.html

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Red Sandalwood

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Native: India and
Southern China
Family: Mimosaceae
Height: 30m
Bipinnate Leaves
Common wayside tree
Young
Y
lleaves are

As seeds are edible people call it as

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Food Tree

edible

Red Sandalwood

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pavonina

Other Common Name: Coral-wood, Peacock

flower fence, Red bead tree, Saga tree

Hindi:

Rakt chandan,

Badi gumchi

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Marathi:
thi

Th l goonjj
Thorla

Tamil: Ani kundamani, Manjadi

Malayalam: Sem, Manchadi

Kannada: Ane golaganji

Telugu: Gurivenda, Enugaguruginji

Bengali: Ranjana

Gujarati: Badigumchi

Oriya: Sokakainjo

Synonym: Adenanthera gersenii,

Adenanthera polita, Corallaria
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Sanskrit: Ksharaka, kunchandana, Tamraka
parvifolia

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Red Sandalwood

Adenanthera pavonina

Adenanthera (ad-en-AN-ther-uh)
pavonina (pav-ON-ee-nuh)

The generic name Adenanthera comes from the Greek aden (a gland)
and anthera (anther),
(anther) referring to minute glands on the anthers

Its also called as Saga tree. Saga is derived from Arabic which means
Goldsmith

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Mythology

Mythical story on Adenanthera

pavonina from ancient China about a
young wife. She missed her husband
who went out for battles. She often
cried under the tree in front of her
gate; her tears dried up, and blood
came out of her eyes. The blood
dyed the roots of the tree into red;
afterwards, small and red beans
began to grow on the tree, and the
b
beans
were bead
b d ttree.
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Red Sandalwood

Adenanthera pavonina

Leaves are compound bipinnate, green when young,

turning yellow when old

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Red Sandalwood

Adenanthera pavonina

Tiny, yellowish, fragrant in dense drooping rat-tail like

flower heads

Sandalwood
Red
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Curved hanging green pods that turn brown, coil up and

split open as they ripen to reveal small bright red seeds

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Red Sandalwood

Adenanthera pavonina

Medicinal Uses
A red powder made from
the wood is used as an
antiseptic paste
Ground seeds are used to
treat boils and
inflammations
Decoction of the leaves is
gout and
used to treat g
rheumatism
Bark
B k was used
d to
t wash
h
hair

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Adenanthera
pavonina

Edible Uses

Red Sandal wood

Adenanthera pavonina

Young leaves can be cooked

and eaten, but usually only
during famine

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Leaves
are used
d as a
supplement for animal fodder,
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or mulched to fertilise crops

Seeds are roasted or boiled

and then eaten with rice which
taste like soy bean

Cooked seeds are rich in oil

and proteins and can be
easily digested by both
humans and livestock

Raw seeds are toxic and

may cause intoxication
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Other uses

Seeds are used

As Beads in jewellery, leis

and rosaries

In ancient India for

weighing gold
seeds are curiously similar
in weight
g
Four seeds make up about
one gramme

Ground seeds can produce an

oil which was used as an
industrial lubricant

Children love the hard red

seeds and few can resist
collecting the brightly coloured
seeds usually littered under
the tree

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Other uses

Hard, reddish wood is used to

make
k cabinets,
bi t often
ft
in
i place
l
off
true sandalwood

With exposure to light, the

wood
d iit slowly
l
l turns purplishli h
red

Red dye is obtained from the wood

and used by the Brahmins to make
religious markings on their
foreheads

Wood is extremely hard and used

in boat-building and making
furniture

Original kum-kum or sindoor

which Indian women wear in their
forehead is made from this bead.
bead
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Other uses
Wood is also valued as
firewood as it burns well
Tree re sprouts new
branches easily and so is
not damaged by
harvesting for firewood

In Malaysia and Indonesia,

Red Sandalwood

Adenanthera pavonina

the trees also provided

shade and were planted as
"nurse trees" in coffee,
clove and rubber
plantations
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Thank you

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Red Sandalwood

Adenanthera pavonina