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Botanical Name :
Caesalpinia sappan
Sanskrit name
:
Patang
English
Name:
sappanwood,
false sandalwood, Indian redwood, samfen wood, sampfen wood
Family:
Fabaceae
Description of
Caesalpinia Sappan:
It
is a small thorny tree indigenous to the Eastern and Western Asiatic
Peninsulas, Pegu and Tenasserim, and is also cultivated in Central
India. The leaves are large and abruptly bi-pinnate; the flowers being
yellow and in axillary racemes; and the pods are oblong, flattened,
nearly smooth and dehiscent or indehiscent. The wood yields a valuable
red dye which is also prepared from the pods and from the bark.
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Uses:
It possesses medicinal abilities as an
anti-bacterial and for its
anti-coagulant properties. It
also produces a valued type of reddish
dye called
brazilin, used for dyeing
fabric as well as making red paints and inks. The
wood is somewhat lighter in
color than
Brazil wood and its other
allies, but the same tinctorial principle appears to be common to all.
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