Historically, sandalwood merchants used to classify sandalwood: sandalwood (produced in India), new sandalwood (produced in Australia), Dimenkang (Indonesia and East Timor) and Sydney (Australia or South Pacific island country).

Sandalwood tumor is a twisted body produced by the antagonism between trees and bacteria caused by the invasion of viruses and fungi during the growth of sandalwood trees. This is called a tree tumor, beech.

It is rare to see the formation of relatively large tree tumors on sandalwood trees in Laoshan Mountain, India. The reason is that sandalwood trees produced in India contain many terpenoids, lipids, ketone bodies, tannins and other compounds, which can kill these fungi and pathogens. Viruses and bacteria are difficult to expand in sandalwood trees to form tumors.

Most of the common "sandalwood tumors" in the market are not sandalwood in the true sense, but some trees belonging to the same family or different families. And sandalwood from Africa. These "sandalwood tumors" have one thing in common, that is, wood contains almost no sandalwood alcohol and sandalwood grease. Light fragrance and peculiar smell. You can also soak in sandalwood essence in various ways. Be sure to identify it.

Few sandalwood trees are infected by bacteria to form tumors. Because of the natural antibacterial properties of sandalwood, sandalwood resin and sandalwood alcohol contained in these tumors are transformed and consumed during the growth process, so sandalwood tumors are not good only from the quality of sandalwood.

The wood grain of some high-quality sandalwood trees with old mountain fragrance and new mountain fragrance is usually unclear, so the texture of the tree tumor is nothing special. Unlike rosewood and yellow ornamentation, tree tumors show beautiful textures.

Therefore, sandalwood tumor has not been favored by the industry.

Figure 1: sandalwood in Mysore, India

Figure 2. Dalbergia Indica (no obvious texture)

Figure 3. African sandalwood tumor from Tanzania

Provided by Xing Xing.