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Simarouba glauca is a flowering tree that is native to Florida, South America, and the Caribbean. Common names include paradise-tree, dysentery-bark, and bitterwood. The tree is well suited for warm, humid, tropical regions. Its cultivation depends on rainfall distribution, water holding capacity of the soil, and sub-soil moisture.
Simarouba is a genus of trees and shrubs in the family Simaroubaceae, native to the neotropics. It has been grouped in the subtribe Simaroubina along with the Simaba and Quassia genera. They have compound leaves , with between 1 and 12 pairs of alternate pinnate leaflets.
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In 1962, Dutch botanist Hans Peter Nooteboom (1934–2022) had taken a very broad view of the genus Quassia L. and included therein various genera including, Hannoa Planch., Odyendyea (Pierre) Engl., Pierreodendron Engl., Samadera Gaertn., Simaba Aubl. and Simarouba Aubl..
Paradise tree (Simarouba glauca) Pigeon plum (Coccoloba diversifolia) Princewood (Exostema caribaea) Pond apple (Annona glabra) Red mulberry (Morus rubra) Red stopper (Eugenia rhombea) Short-leaf fig (Ficus citrifolia) Soapberry (Sapindus saponaria) Soldierwood (Colubrina elliptica) Strangler fig (Ficus aurea) Torchwood (Amyris elemifera)
Simarouba amara was first described by Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet in French Guiana in 1775 and is the type species of the genus Simarouba. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In 1790, William Wright described Quassia simarouba , [ 15 ] which Auguste Pyrame DeCandolle suggested was the same species as S. amara .
Paradise tree (Simarouba glauca), anón de majagua (Lonchocarpus heptaphyllus), jagua (Genipa americana), black olive (Bucida buceras), West Indian lancewood (Oxandra lanceolata) and amacey (Protium balsamiferum) are found in small secondary stands.
Paradise Tree (Simarouba glauca), Coral Bean (Erythrina herbacea), Sabal Palm (Sabal palmetto), Buccaneer Palm (Pseudophoenix sargentii), Lime Prickly-ash (Zanthoxylum fagara), Joewood (Jacquinia keyensis), Lancewood (Nectandra coriacea), Green Buttonwood (Conocarpus erectus), Washington Palm (Washingtonia robusta), and; Varnish Leaf (Dodonaea ...