Adenanthera Pavonina
A tree that furnishes red sandal wood. A dye is obtained simply by rubbing the wood against a wet stone, which is used by the Brahmins for marking their foreheads after religious bathing. The seeds ar...
A tree that furnishes red sandal wood. A dye
is obtained simply by rubbing the wood against a wet stone, which
is used by the Brahmins for marking their foreheads after
religious bathing. The seeds are used by Indian jewelers as
weights, each seed weighing uniformly four grains. They are known
as Circassian beans. Pounded and mixed with borax, they form an
adhesive substance. They are sometimes used as food. The plant
belongs to the _Leguminosae_.
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