bitter bark

plural bitter barks · alternative bitterbark · alternative bitter-bark

1. Any of various trees with bitter bark, some used in traditional medicine:
   1. A quinine bush (Alstonia constricta) of New South Wales and Queensland.First known use 19th c.

      The mine man looked about, as if he could envisage no possibility of action among the wiregrass and shrubby bitter barks that surrounded them.

      2002, Alex Miller, Journey to the Stone Country, Allen & Unwin, published 2003, page 40

   2. A coast bersama (Bersama tysoniana), of Australia.
   3. A long-leaved bitter bark (Petalostigma triloculare), of Australia.
   4. A native quince (Petalostigma quadriloculare), of Australia.
   5. An eastern gondola bush (Tabernaemontana orientalis), of northern Australia and Malesia.
   6. A Georgia bark, fever tree (Pinckneya pubens), of southeastern US.
   7. A cascara buckthorn (Rhamnus purshiana), found from British Columbia and Idaho to central California.
   8. A paradise tree, any member of the species Simarouba amara or Simarouba glauca of neotropical trees,
   9. Any member of the species Sacoglottis gabonensis of trees of Western and Central Africa.