Quassia amara L.

 
  • Family : SIMAROUBACEAE
    (Quassia Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : HINGOT FAMILY (हिंगोट फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Simaroubaceae
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Quassia amara L.
  • Common name : Amargo, Bitter Ash, Bitterwood
  • Vernacular name :
    • Quassia (Malayalam)
  • Habit : Tree
  • Comments / notes : Grown in gardens
  • Flower, Fruit : January-November
  • Distribution :
    • Kerala : Kerala
    • Maharashtra : Maharashtra
    • Tamil Nadu : Chennai district
    • Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
  • Native : Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Islands, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Islands
  • Exotic/Native : Exotic
  • World Distribution : Belize, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Leeward Islands, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panamá, Suriname, Trinidad-Tobago, Venezuela, Windward Islands
  • Literature :
    • N.P. Sing & S. Karthikeyan 2000. Flora of Maharashtra vol 1.
    • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Quassia amara. Downloaded on 13 February 2025.

Field Image(s)

India Distribution

World Distribution

Creative Commons License
India Flora Online by Herbarium JCB is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.