Chandan Plant

Red sandalwood is a plant. The heartwood is used as medicine.The heartwood, useful part of plant is extremely hard, blood red in colour with occasional light yellow streaks.This wood has been traditionally used as a sacred wood in religious functions and during pujas, havans[homas] purpose. Red Chandan is also used in ayurvedic medicine. In a Red sandalwood tree (unlike white sandalwood), the wood at the center of the trunk (heartwood) is mainly used for medical purposes. The tree grows as a wild plant in Chittoor and kadapa districts of Andhra Pradesh and found in some packets of adjoining state of Tamil Nadu also.