![]() Also in herbal medicine in the United States and Europe very little distinction is made between these two species of trees they are used identically and just called quassia. excelsa is with up to 25 m in height much taller, and occurs farther north in the tropics of Jamaica, the Caribbean, the Lesser Antilles, and northern Venezuela than Quassia amara. Quassia amara is marketed and used interchangeably with another tree species Picrasma excelsa, sharing the common name of quassia (and many of Quassia amara's constituents and uses). For its beauty, quassia is also grown as ornamental plant. Trunk wood, roots, bark, stems, leaves, flowers and seeds are harvested to gain extracts of the plant. All plant parts are useful for medicinal properties and the bark extracts are mainly used as flavoring in drinks but also for insecticides. Therefore, it is used as insecticide, in traditional medicine against lot of disease and as bitter tasting additive in the food industry. amara contents more than thirty phytochemicals with biological activities in its tissues including the very bitter compound quassin. The name "amara" means "bitter" in Latin and describes its very bitter taste. amara was named after called Graman Quassi, and enslaved healer and botanist who showed Europeans the plant's fever treating uses. Quassia (genus) amara (species) is an attractive small evergreen shrub or tree from the tropics and belongs to the family Simaroubaceae.
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