Picrasma Excelsa
This yields the bitter wood known as Jamaica Quassia. The tree is common in Jamaica, where it attains the height of 50 feet. The wood is of a whitish or yellow color, and has an intensely bitter taste...
This yields the bitter wood known as Jamaica
Quassia. The tree is common in Jamaica, where it attains the
height of 50 feet. The wood is of a whitish or yellow color, and
has an intensely bitter taste. Although it is used as a medicine
in cases of weak digestion, it acts as a narcotic poison on some
animals, and the tincture is used as fly poison. Cups made of this
wood, when filled with water and allowed to remain for some time,
will impart tonic properties to the water.
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