Santalum acuminatum
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Santalum acuminatum, the desert quandong, is an evergreen, hemiparasitic tree in the sandalwood family, Santalaceae, which is widely dispersed throughout the central deserts and southern areas of Aust
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Santalum acuminatum Flickr Kevin Thiele
A desert quandong nut on a piece of paperbark
Leaves and a fruit of quandong, detail of sketch by Olive Pink (1930)
Santalum
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Santalum is a genus of woody flowering plants in the Santalaceae family, the best known and most commercially valuable of which is the Indian sandalwood tree, S. album. Members of the genus are trees
Santalum acuminatum
…acuminatus to denote the leaves – sharpened or pointed. The botanist Alphonse Pyrame de Candolle gave the current name in 1857, placing it in the genus Santalum; the genus containing Australian sandalwood, Santalum spicatum, and white sandalwood, Santalum album. Several botanical names have been deemed to be…
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