Mysore (Mysuru), Karnataka

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.

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Place

Mysore (Mysuru), Karnataka

documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

the place name as the harvest globe’s data spells it; the Wikidata item is Q10086 (Mysore)

confidence A

Region

Karnataka: natural populations at Chamundi Hills and Bannerghatta

documented

At present, reasonably healthy populations of sandalwood are available in Marayoor Sandalwood Reserve (MSR), Chamundi Hills, and Bannerghatta in Karnataka state.

GC-9 · Kirdat K, Tiwarekar B, Swetha P, Padma S, Thorat V, Manjula KN, Kavya N, Sundararaj R, Yad · read 2026-09-30

the sentence also names Marayoor, which the paper places in Kerala elsewhere

confidence B

Country

India

documented

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Coordinates

12.30861, 76.65306 (a representative point for the city (Wikidata P625), not a stand of trees)

documented

Wikidata Q10086 (Mysore) P625

GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Time zone

Asia/Kolkata

documented

IN +2232+08822 Asia/Kolkata

TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); pu · read 2026-09-27

confidence A

Traditions

since the Karnataka and Tamil Nadu amendments of 2001 and 2002, private growers own their sandalwood trees; the sale runs through the Forest department

documented

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.

GC-8 · Fatima T, Krishnan R, Srivastava A, Hanur VS, Rao MS · read 2026-09-30
GC-9 · Kirdat K, Tiwarekar B, Swetha P, Padma S, Thorat V, Manjula KN, Kavya N, Sundararaj R, Yad · read 2026-09-30

and the sale amendment (GC-8); GC-9: the policy change of the 2000s opened private cultivation (GC-9)

confidence B

Harvest, as a source states it

Grows here

• Santalum album L.

Films and plates

• OR-4 · sandalwood: the origin film (the field to the bench) · queued: the master queue lists OR-4 as queued (the render queue’s list, read 2026-09-30); no path until it is rendered and published
  a render-time texture (Brown Mud Dry; a render input only): "Brown Mud Dry", Rob Tuytel (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0; a render-time texture (Bark Brown 02; a render input only): "Bark Brown 02", Rob Tuytel (Poly Haven), CC0 1.0

Claims register

Every sentence and number the site states about this record, with its status after the 2026-09-27 review.

• softened · The fragrant heartwood takes decades to develop, and harvest in India is tightly regulated. (was: The fragrant heartwood develops only after 30-50 years of maturity. Indian government heavily restricts harvest; trees are owned by the state.)
  documented · register row 1319

  GC-8 · Fatima T, Krishnan R, Srivastava A, Hanur VS, Rao MS · read 2026-09-30

  softened by the house’s review 2026-09-27 (row 2273). GC-8: Karnataka and Tamil Nadu amended the sandalwood act in 2001 and 2002, making private growers owners of their trees (GC-8), and the sale runs through the Forest department (GC-8): the old “trees are owned by the state” is contradicted; “tightly regulated” is supported in substance. no filed source gives the age at which the heartwood forms (GC-7 says only “slow growing”); “decades” is the trade’s convention

  where the site says it: /materials, “Mysore Sandalwood”

  confidence B

• softened · The fragrant heartwood takes decades to develop, and harvest in India is tightly regulated. The scarcity makes genuine Mysore sandalwood oil one of the costliest materials in perfumery. (was: The fragrant heartwood develops only after 30+ years of maturity. Indian government heavily restricts harvest; trees are owned by the state. The resulting scarcity makes genuine Mysore sandalwood oil among the costliest materials in perfumery — often $2,500+ per kilogram.)
  documented · register row 2273

  GC-8 · Fatima T, Krishnan R, Srivastava A, Hanur VS, Rao MS · read 2026-09-30

  GC-8: Karnataka and Tamil Nadu amended the sandalwood act in 2001 and 2002, making private growers owners of their trees (GC-8), and the sale runs through the Forest department (GC-8): the old “trees are owned by the state” is contradicted; “tightly regulated” is supported in substance. Scarcity: GC-7 (GC-7) and GC-9 (GC-9); “one of the costliest” has no price source. The price was removed (a price stated as fact with no source; nothing on the site is for sale (the decisions log))

  where the site says it: the page’s own data (a script, not a section)

  confidence B

Sources

1. GC-7 · Diaz-Chavez ML, Moniodis J, Madilao LL, Jancsik S, Keeling CI, Barbour EL, Ghisalberti EL, Plummer JA, Jones CG, Bohlmann J. Biosynthesis of Sandalwood Oil: Santalum album CYP76F Cytochromes P450 Produce Santalols and Bergamotol. PLoS ONE 2013;8(9):e75053. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0075053. PMID 24324844. PMCID PMC3854609. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0075053 · read 2026-09-30 · Creative Commons Attribution License (open access, as the article states); short quotes only, the text is not filed
2. GC-8 · Fatima T, Krishnan R, Srivastava A, Hanur VS, Rao MS. Comparative transcriptome profiling of high and low oil yielding Santalum album L. PLoS ONE 2022;17(4):e0252173. DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0252173. PMID 35482775. PMCID PMC9049570. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0252173 · read 2026-09-30 · Creative Commons Attribution License (PLoS open access, as the article states); short quotes only, the text is not filed
3. GC-9 · Kirdat K, Tiwarekar B, Swetha P, Padma S, Thorat V, Manjula KN, Kavya N, Sundararaj R, Yadav A. Nested Real-Time PCR Assessment of Vertical Transmission of Sandalwood Spike Phytoplasma (‘Ca. Phytoplasma asteris’). Biology (Basel) 2022;11(10):1494. DOI 10.3390/biology11101494. PMID 36290399. PMCID PMC9598993. doi.org/10.3390/biology11101494 · read 2026-09-30 · CC BY (open access, MDPI, as the article states); short quotes only, the text is not filed
4. GEO-1 · Wikidata (Wikimedia Foundation), property P625 (coordinate location) of the item linked to the English Wikipedia article of each place; wbgetentities API, read 2026-09-27. Values rounded to 5 decimals by the fetch script; representative points (city, region or country centroid), not field locations. www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbgetentities&… · read 2026-09-27 · CC0 1.0 (Wikidata data licence)
5. TZ-1 · IANA Time Zone Database, zone.tab, release 2026d (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority); public domain. data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb/zone.tab · read 2026-09-27 · public domain

These records are published under CC BY 4.0.

this record as data: /data/origin/mysore-in.json · version 1 · updated 2026-09-30 · confidence B