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I f tiInformation sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenanthera_pavonina
http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Red%20Sandalwood.html
htt //d d / id / f/ /51496/#bhttp://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/51496/#b
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/red-bead-seed-adenanthera-pavonina-earrings-17c/
http://pravinsworld.blogspot.in/2010/03/manjadikkuru-lucky-red-
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seed-known-as.html
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Red SandalwoodAdenanthera pavoninap
Native: India and
Southern China
Family: MimosaceaeFamily: Mimosaceae
Height: 30m
Bipinnate Leaves
Common wayside tree
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Young leaves are
edible
As seeds are edible people call it as Food Tree
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Red SandalwoodAdenanthera pavonina
Other Common Name: Coral-wood, Peacock
flower fence, Red bead tree, Saga tree
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Hindi: Rakt chandan,
Badi gumchi
M thi Th l jMarathi: Thorla goonj
Tamil: Ani kundamani, Manjadi
Malayalam: Sem, ManchadiMalayalam: Sem, Manchadi
Kannada: Ane golaganji
Telugu: Gurivenda, Enugaguruginji
Bengali: Ranjana
Gujarati: Badigumchi
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Oriya: Sokakainjo
Sanskrit: Ksharaka, kunchandana, Tamraka
Synonym: Adenanthera gersenii, Adenanthera polita, Corallaria parvifolia
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Adenanthera (ad-en-AN-ther-uh)pavonina (pav-ON-ee-nuh)
Red SandalwoodAdenanthera pavonina
The generic name Adenanthera comes from the Greek aden (a gland) and anthera (anther) referring to minute glands on the anthers
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and anthera (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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MythologyRed Sandalwood
Adenanthera pavonina
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
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beans were bead tree.
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Leaves are compound bipinnate, green when young, turning yellow when old
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Tiny, yellowish, fragrant in dense drooping rat-tail likeflower heads
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Curved hanging green pods that turn brown, coil up andsplit open as they ripen to reveal small bright red seeds
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A red powder made from
Medicinal Uses Red SandalwoodAdenanthera
pavonina
the wood is used as an
antiseptic pasteantiseptic paste
Ground seeds are used to
treat boils and
inflammations
Decoction of the leaves is
used to treat gout and g
rheumatism
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Bark was used to wash
hair
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Young leaves can be cooked
Edible Uses Red Sandal woodAdenanthera pavonina
and eaten, but usually only
during famine
L dLeaves are used as a
supplement for animal fodder,
or mulched to fertilise cropsp
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 beand proteins and can be
easily digested by both
humans and livestock
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Raw seeds are toxic and
may cause intoxication
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Seeds are used
Other uses
As Beads in jewellery, leis
and rosaries
In ancient India for
weighing gold
seeds are curiously similar
in weightg
Four seeds make up about
one gramme
Ground seeds can produce anGround 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 R d S d l d
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collecting the brightly coloured
seeds usually littered under
the tree
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pavonina
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Hard, reddish wood is used to
k bi t ft i l f
Other uses
make cabinets, often in place of
true sandalwood
With exposure to light, the
d i l l li hwood it slowly turns purplish-
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
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forehead is made from this bead.
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Wood is also valued as
Other uses
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
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plantations
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Thank you
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