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  • Santalum lanceolatum is an important food for Aboriginal people all over central Australia, and its fruit contains high concentrations of Vitamin C.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I've been reluctant to spend too much time w/ my Profumum samples for fear of falling in love w/ more of them - I'm head over heels for both versions of Santalum and Fumidus and I'm finding myself more and more drawn to Thundra.

    Profumum Volo AZ 686: Perfume Review Marina Geigert 2009

  • As a result of those factors, at least one plant species has gone extinct during historical times (the native sandal, Santalum fernandezianum, cut to extinction by the beginning of the 20th century for its aromatic wood), and several others, with very few individuals or even not collected from the beginning of the century, are on the verge of disappearing.

    Juan Fernández Islands temperate forests 2007

  • Santalum lanceolatum is an important food for Aboriginal people all over central Australia, and its fruit contains high concentrations of Vitamin C.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The island is visited by Pitcairn islanders once or twice each year, chiefly to cut "miro" Thespesia populnea and tao from which carvings are made for sale to visitors to Pitcairn, and sandalwood Santalum hendersonense.

    Henderson Island, United Kingdom 2008

  • The tallest trees are screw-pine Pandanus tectorius, and other trees include the endemics Santalum hendersonense, Myrsine hoskae, Celtis paniculata var. viridis, and two endemic varieties of Bidens hendersonensis.

    Henderson Island, United Kingdom 2008

  • Commercial logging has intensively focused on two species: kauri (Agathis macrophylla) and sandalwood (Santalum austrocaledonicum).

    Vanuatu rain forests 2008

  • The upper slopes of the high volcanoes, Mauna kea, Mauna loa, Hualalai, and Haleakala, support shrubland habitats with species such as Chenopodium oahuense, Vaccinium reticulatum, Dubautia menziesii, and Santalum haleakalae.

    Hawaii tropical high shrublands 2008

  • East Timor's few remaining forest patches contain the last natural stands of Eucalyptus urophylla (now widely used in plantations) and Santalum album, the sandalwood tree.

    Timor and Wetar deciduous forests 2008

  • One of the important species of this forest, sandalwood (Santalum album), has been selectively removed from most of the forests in this ecoregion.

    South Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests 2008

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