A young Sandalwood tree, about seven years old. The seed for this one came from the West coast of WA.

This type, unlike the trees from SA and the Gold fields area of WA are slow to fruit. This one has a few fruit for the first time this season.

The nuts are large.

The early fruiting types have smaller nuts.

Santalum Spicatum

Santalaceae

Australian sandalwood, fragrant sandalwood

A native of S.A and W.A. it prefers light to medium  well-drained soils in an open sunny position, and is drought and frost resistant

An  evergreen  tree it grows to a height of  8m with a spread of 3m.

The stem is erect, slender and branching, with scented timber; the leaves are dark green, 5cm long, acuminate and thick petioled; the flowers are whitish and fragrant and occur in thick clusters, the fruit are yellow dry berries, 2.5cm across.

Propagation is by seed

From Bodkin, Francis

Encyclopedia botanica-- 1995

  ISBN 0 207 15064 8

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