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I f tiInformation sources

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adenanthera_pavonina

http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Red%20Sandalwood.html

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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/red-bead-seed-adenanthera-pavonina-earrings-17c/

http://pravinsworld.blogspot.in/2010/03/manjadikkuru-lucky-red-

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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

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


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)


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


and anthera (anther), referring to minute glands on the anthers

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

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.

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

Confederation of Indian IndustryRed SandalwoodAdenanthera pavonina

Curved hanging green pods that turn brown, coil up andsplit open as they ripen to reveal small bright red seeds


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

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


Raw seeds are toxic and

may cause intoxication

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


collecting the brightly coloured

seeds usually littered under

the tree

Red SandalwoodAdenanthera

pavonina

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


forehead is made from this bead.


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


plantations

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