Quassia amara
Read about Quassia amara in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Quassia amara, linn. Shrubby tree: lvs. opposite, odd-pinnate, dark green with bright pink veins; lfts. 5, elliptical-oblong, pointed, entire, tapering toward the base, subsessile at the petiolar strictures; petiole articulate, winged: fls. crimson, in racemes; corollas never fully expanded, the petals having a spiral twist and curling round one another: drupes biglandular ovoid, black with a pale spot at the base. Trop. Amer. B.M. 497.—It furnishes the bitter quassia wood and its medicinal extract is used as a tonic. Now cult, in the tropics of both hemispheres. F. Tracy Hubbard.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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