{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "mysore-in",
 "type": "Origin",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "station": 1,
 "confidence": "B",
 "sources": [
  "GC-7",
  "GC-8",
  "GC-9",
  "GEO-1",
  "TZ-1"
 ],
 "notes": "harvest_windows: empty on purpose (a tree felled for its heartwood; no source gives a season). Scarcity: disease and exploitation have depleted natural populations (docs/sources/GC-7-diaz-chavez-2013-sandalwood-oil.md:31; docs/sources/GC-9-kirdat-2022-sandalwood-spike.md:13).",
 "place": {
  "value": "Mysore (Mysuru), Karnataka",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:191",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the place name as data/1b/harvest.json spells it; the Wikidata item is Q10086 (Mysore)"
 },
 "region": {
  "value": "Karnataka: natural populations at Chamundi Hills and Bannerghatta",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-9",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-9-kirdat-2022-sandalwood-spike.md:19",
  "quote": "At present, reasonably healthy populations of sandalwood are available in Marayoor Sandalwood Reserve (MSR), Chamundi Hills, and Bannerghatta in Karnataka state.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "note": "the sentence also names Marayoor, which the paper places in Kerala elsewhere"
 },
 "country": {
  "value": "India",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:192",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "coordinates": {
  "lat": 12.30861,
  "lon": 76.65306,
  "precision": "a representative point for the city (Wikidata P625), not a stand of trees",
  "ref": "Wikidata Q10086 (Mysore) P625",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GEO-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:195",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "tz": {
  "value": "Asia/Kolkata",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "TZ-1",
  "where": "data/1b/harvest.json:198",
  "quote": "IN\t+2232+08822\tAsia/Kolkata",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "harvest_windows": [],
 "traditions": {
  "value": "since the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu amendments of 2001 and 2002, private growers own their sandalwood trees; the sale runs through the Forest department",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "GC-8",
  "where": "docs/sources/GC-8-fatima-2022-sandalwood-karnataka.md:16",
  "quote": "Realizing the sharp decline in the sandalwood population, the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu Forest department amended the sandalwood act in 2001 and 2002 and declared the private sandalwood growers himself an owner of the sandalwood as per the amended Act.",
  "confidence": "B",
  "sources": [
   "GC-9"
  ],
  "note": "and the sale amendment (docs/sources/GC-8-fatima-2022-sandalwood-karnataka.md:19); GC-9: the policy change of the 2000s opened private cultivation (docs/sources/GC-9-kirdat-2022-sandalwood-spike.md:22)"
 },
 "botanicals": [
  "santalum-album"
 ],
 "media": [
  "or-4-film"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-sandalwood",
  "globe": "/materials#global-origins",
  "map": "/materials#world-map",
  "harvest_table": "/materials#global-origins"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "Mysore stands for Indian sandalwood: in Karnataka, natural populations remain at Chamundi Hills and Bannerghatta.",
  "body": [
   "Since the amendments of 2001 and 2002 private growers in Karnataka own their trees, and the sale runs through the Forest department. No harvest season is given. The point on the globe is Wikidata’s point for the city."
  ]
 }
}