Abstract
Osyris quadripartita (Africa sandalwood) is an evergreen root hemiparasite plant and belongs to the Santalaceae family which is most ordinarily referred to as African sandalwood. It’s a culturally and commercially important species that are used for herbal medicine, religious activities, and thus the perfumery refining industry. The species grows 1 m to 7 m tall counting on the soil type, climate, and genetic variation. The tree occurs on rocky ridges and mountain slopes with an altitude between 900 m to 2550 m above sea level. Regarding to geographic distribution species commonly found in the humid highland and semi-arid ecosystem of Ethiopian. The population structure were an inverted J-shape distribution form and therefore the plant habitats were mostly grouped under Acacia-Rhus-Terminalia community types. Regard to yield quality, it's concluded that sandalwood populations vary substantially within the stock and quality of oil which can be produced. In terms of oil stock the root system is superior to shoot system in quality aspects. Therefore, the main review of this paper was to admission the latest Osyris research and its importance and standing in Ethiopia in order that the knowledge are often used as an honest reference resource for researchers, students, conservationist and NGOs working in Ethiopia within the area of oil crops generally and Osyris in specific. Keywords : Osyris quadripartita, Sandalwood, population structure, Oil crop, Ethiopia DOI: 10.7176/JBAH/11-13-02 Publication date: July 31 st 2021
Highlights
Natural forests in Ethiopia are declining rapidly because of their conversion to farmlands joined without careful consideration and excessive utilization caused by increasing increase
Market demands in Asia and Europe shop center have amplified for sandalwood oil products (CITES Cop 16) and the plant products sell have inadequate benefit for lower community groups
SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION The review result shows some populations of Osyris quadripartita in Ethiopia are stable despite to this, with in few years free exploitation happened. the stableness is not the results of controlled harvesting but, the actual fact that the bulk of the studied populations were little or not touched, being considered inferior or www.iiste.org uneconomical to reap in terms of quantity obtained and overall transportation cost to processing centers
Summary
Natural forests in Ethiopia are declining rapidly because of their conversion to farmlands joined without careful consideration and excessive utilization caused by increasing increase. Osyris quadripartita (Africa sandalwood) is an evergreen root hemiparasite plant. The expansion in demand and attractive prices offered for the wood, oil and its products have increased the pressure on this sandalwood resource base (Rai and Sarma, 1990).
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