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|familia=Simaroubaceae
|genus=Quassia
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|Min ht metric=cm
|Temp Metric=°F
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|image=Koeh-117.jpg
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|image_caption=Quassia amara
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'''''Quassia''''' is a [[genus]] in the [[family]] [[Simaroubaceae]]. Its size is disputed; some [[botanist]]s treat it as consisting of only one [[species]], ''[[Quassia amara]]'' from [tropical] [[South America]], while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a [[pantropical]] [[genus]] containing up to 40 species of [[tree]]s and [[shrub]]s.
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Quassia (from an aboriginal name). Simarubaceae. Trees, sometimes cultivated in the warmhouse.
Quassia (from an aboriginal name). Simarubaceae. Trees, sometimes cultivated in the warmhouse.
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{{Taxobox
==Cultivation==
| color = lightgreen
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| name = ''Quassia''
 
| image = Koeh-117.jpg
===Propagation===
| image_width = 240px
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| image_caption = ''Quassia amara''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[Dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Sapindales]]
| familia = [[Simaroubaceae]]
| genus = '''''Quassia'''''
| genus_authority = [[Carolus Linnaeus|L.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
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'''''Quassia''''' is a [[genus]] in the [[family]] [[Simaroubaceae]]. Its size is disputed; some [[botanist]]s treat it as consisting of only one [[species]], ''[[Quassia amara]]'' from [tropical] [[South America]], while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a [[pantropical]] [[genus]] containing up to 40 species of [[tree]]s and [[shrub]]s.
===Pests and diseases===
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==Species==
Broader treatments of the genus include the following and other species:
Broader treatments of the genus include the following and other species:
*''[[Quassia africana]]''
*''[[Quassia africana]]''
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*''[[Quassia undulata]]''
*''[[Quassia undulata]]''


[[Category:Sapindales]]
==Gallery==
[[Category:Plant toxin insecticides]]
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Image:Upload.png| photo 1
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==References==
*[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
<!--- xxxxx  *Flora: The Gardener's Bible, by Sean Hogan. Global Book Publishing, 2003. ISBN 0881925381  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *American Horticultural Society: A-Z Encyclopedia of Garden Plants, by Christopher Brickell, Judith D. Zuk. 1996. ISBN 0789419432  -->
<!--- xxxxx  *Sunset National Garden Book. Sunset Books, Inc., 1997. ISBN 0376038608  -->
 
==External links==
*{{wplink}}
 
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Quassia is a genus in the family Simaroubaceae. Its size is disputed; some botanists treat it as consisting of only one species, Quassia amara from [tropical] South America, while others treat it in a wide circumscription as a pantropical genus containing up to 40 species of trees and shrubs.


Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Quassia (from an aboriginal name). Simarubaceae. Trees, sometimes cultivated in the warmhouse.

Leaves alternate, pinnate; lfts. alternate, entire, coriaceous: panicles axillary and terminal, elongated,branched; fls. subcymose-dioecious; calyx small, 5- lobed; petals 5; stamens 10 in the male, rudimentary in the female fls.; ovary sunken in the disk, deeply 5- parted: fr. 1-5 spreading sessile drupes.—About 5 species, Trop. Amer. and Trop. Afr.


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Cultivation

Propagation

Pests and diseases

Species

Broader treatments of the genus include the following and other species:

Gallery

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