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Orlando, Florida, United States
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Growing on Pinus sabiniana
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Species: Viscum shirense Sprague Date: 2005-10-17 Location: By main Vumba rd Habitat: Open roadside verge nr forest edge.
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Species: Osyris compressa (Berg.) A.DC. Date: 2014-01-15 Location: By path on slopes above Kirstenbosch Botanic Garden, Cape Town Habitat: Shrubby vegetation
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Hobro, Jylland, Danmark
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Grand Canyon National Park, Coconino County, Arizona, US
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Percy Warner Park, Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee, US
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Arthur's Pass, Canterbury, New Zealand
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Indian sandalwoodSantalaceae (Sandalwood family)IUCN: VulnerableNative to the semi-arid areas of the Indian subcontinent. Naturalized in the Diamond Head area of Oahu, Hawaii, USA.For centuries this sandalwood has been harvested extensively for the fragrant heartwood and medicinal purposes.Fruits
www.flickr.com/photos/dweickhoff/5187913677/in/photolist-...EtymologyThe generic name Santalum is derived from santalon, the Greek name for sandalwood.The specific epithet album is Latin for white, referring to the white heartwood.
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field image of Comandra umbellata FALSE TOADFLAX at the James Woodworth Prairie Preserve - scattered specimens at first bloom
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Cabo Delgado Province, Mozambique
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A species from northeastern Argentina with unusual leaves. Sombra de toro belongs in the Santalaceae family or the Cervantesiaceae family, depending on authority. Buenas Aires Botanical Gardens.
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Close-up of the minute but abundant flowers.Choretrum candollei is a member of the Santalaceae. The species that make up this family are hemiparasites. Their leaves are able to photosynthesise but have to obtain water and soluble salts from host plants. Choretrum candollei is a root parasite and is endemic to Australia . In effect the species is an underground mistletoe.
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California, United States
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Heau or Gaudichaud's exocarposSantalaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian IslandsEndangeredPalikea, Oahu
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Lonavala, Maharashtra, India
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Longreach, Queensland, Australia
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[syn. Santalum freycinetianum var. freycinetianum]Iliahi or Forest sandalwoodSantalaceaeEndemic to the Hawaiian Islands (Oahu only)North Halawa Valley, OahuThe Hawaiian name lau ala literally means "sweet wood" or "fragrant wood." Though early Hawaiians may not have used iliahi wood extensively, it was still valued. Besides used as firewood, the light yellow wood was sometimes used to make kk or musical bow.Medicinally, the leaves were used as a shampoo for dandruff and head lice; and a drink from powdered material for male and female sex organs or "for sores of long duration."The fragrant heartwood and bark of iliahi was pounded to scent the smell of new kapa (tapa), and when added with coconut oil the would water proof the material.One older source (Charles Gaudichaud,1819) states that Hawaiians "used all fragrant plants, all flowers and even colored fruits" for lei making. The red or yellow were indicative of divine and chiefly rank; the purple flowers and fruit, or with fragrance, were associated with divinity. Because of their long-standing place in oral tradition, the leaves, new leaves (liko) and flowers of iliahi were likely used for lei making by early Hawaiians, even though there are no written sources.EtymologyThe generic name Santalum is derived from santalon, the Greek name for sandalwood.The specific epithet freycinetianum is named in honor of Captain Loius de Freycinet (1779-1840), commander of the French exploration on board of which was Charles Gaudichaud-Beaupre, the first Western botanist to come to the Hawaiian Islands.NPH00016
nativeplants.hawaii.edu/plant/view/Santalum_freycinetianum
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July 17, 2012, Rose Canyon, Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona
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Sabino Creek, Arizona, February 12, 2010. Found growing on a legume (probably Prosopis). You can see the Phoradendron growing out of the Prosopis.
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Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia