bitter bark

Meanings

1. Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:
2. especially, a quinine bush (Alstonia constricta) of New South Wales and Queensland.
3. A coast bersama (Bersama tysoniana), of Australia.
4. A long-leaved bitter bark (Petalostigma triloculare), of Australia.
5. A native quince (Petalostigma quadriloculare), of Australia.
6. An eastern gondola bush (Tabernaemontana orientalis), of northern Australia and Malesia.
7. A Georgia bark, fever tree (Pinckneya pubens), of southeastern US.
8. A cascara buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana), found from British Columbia and Idaho to central California.
9. A paradise tree, any of species Simarouba amara or Simarouba glauca of neotropical trees,
10. Any of species Sacoglottis gabonensis of trees of Western and Central Africa.