Taxon: Simarouba glauca DC.

Common names:

• bitterwood   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• dysentery-bark   (Source: CRC MedHerbs ed2 ) – English
  
• paradise-tree   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• aceituno   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  

Economic importance:

• Human food: potential as oil/fat   (fide New Crops 146. 1989)
  
• Materials: wood   (timber fide Ency WTimber)
  
• Medicines: folklore; source of glaucarubin   (fide Import Medicinal Pl; CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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View phytochemical or ethnobotanical data from Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Florida
  Mexico [s.]
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Mesoamerica: Belize; Costa Rica; El Salvador; Guatemala; Honduras; Nicaragua
  Caribbean: Bahamas; Cuba; Dominican Republic; Haiti; Jamaica; Puerto Rico

References:

• Adams, C. 1972. Flowering plants of Jamaica. (F Jam)
• Boutelje, J. B. 1980. Encyclopedia of world timbers, names and technical literature. (Ency WTimber)
• Correll, D. S. & H. B. Correll. 1982. Flora of the Bahama archipelago. (F Bahamas)
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. (CRC MedHerbs ed2)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third. (Hortus 3)
• Liogier, A. H. 1981–. Flora of Hispaniola: Part 1; La Flora de la Española. Part II-. (F Hispan)
• Long, R. W. & O. Lakela. 1971. A flora of tropical Florida. (F TFla)
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. (Herbs Commerce ed2)
• Missouri Botanical Garden. W³Tropicos - on-line resource. (TROPICOS)
• Nooteboom, H. P. 1962. Generic delimitation in Simaroubaceae tribus Simaroubeae and a conspectus of the genus Quassia L. Blumea 11:525. [= Quassia simarouba L. f.].
• Rehm, S. 1994. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. (Dict Rehm)
• Standley, P. C. & J. A. Steyermark. 1946–1976. Flora of Guatemala. (F Guat)
• Stevens, W. D. et al., eds. 2001. Flora de Nicaragua. Monogr. Syst. Bot. Missouri Bot. Gard. 85(1-3). (F Nicaragua) [= S. amara Aubl.].
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants - on-line version. (Atlas Florida)

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Simarouba glauca.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Simarouba glauca. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for Simarouba glauca DC.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Images:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.

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• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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