Simaroubaceae
Quassia Family
The Simaroubaceae family (Quassia Family) is a botanical family placed in the order Sapindales. In the SASYA catalogue it spans 6 species across 4 genera. Its members are predominantly trees. Well-represented genera include Ailanthus, Balanites and Quassia. Several members are valued in traditional medicine. Familiar examples include tree-of-heaven, Heaven Tree and White Palle.
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Pinnately compound, often bitter-tasting leaves on trees; small, regular flowers sit atop a fleshy disc and ripen into a cluster of small drupes, with bark and wood carrying an intensely bitter taste throughout the family.
Quassin and related bitter compounds, concentrated in bark and wood, are so intensely bitter they are used commercially as a natural insecticide and bittering agent, detectable at only a few parts per million.
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