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Details for: PI 65247,
Alstonia scholaris
(L.) R. Br., Devil tree
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Taxonomy:
Alstonia scholaris
(L.) R. Br.
Top Name:
Devil tree
Origin:
Donated – West Bengal, India
Maintained:
Tropical Agriculture Research Station
Received by NPGS:
Oct 1925
PI Assigned:
1925
Inventory Volume:
85
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PI 65247 PL
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: When you select cuttings, you will receive unrooted cuttings, not rooted plants, unless specific arrangements have been made with the curator.
Distributed as: Seeds, Available: Once every two years
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Core Passport Data
Taxonomy:
Alstonia scholaris
(L.) R. Br.
Top Name:
Devil tree
Origin:
Donated – West Bengal, India
Maintained:
Tropical Agriculture Research Station
Received by NPGS:
Oct 1925
PI Assigned:
1925
Source History
Donated
20 October 1925.
West Bengal, India
Comment:
From Darjiling, India
Donor(s):
Cave, G.H., Lloyd Botanic Garden
28 November 1942.
Florida, United States
Donor(s):
U.S. Plant Introduction Garden
Accession Names and Identifiers
Devil tree
Type: Local name
Palimara Alstonia
Type: Local name
TARS 7136
Type: Other or unclassified name
Group: MISC.TARS
Narrative
"A Himalayan tree, which, as described by Watt (Dictionary of the Economic Products of India, vol. 1, p. 197), is a tall evergreen tree, widely cultivated throughout India for ornamental purposes. The tree yields an inferior quality of gutta-percha, and from the bark is obtained a bitter principle known as ditain, which has a medicinal effect similar to that of quinine." B.P.I. Inventories No. 85-10
Alstonia scholaris
(L.) R. Br.
Genus:
Alstonia
Family:
Apocynaceae
Subfamily:
Rauvolfioideae
Tribe:
Alstonieae
Nomen number:
2688
Place of publication:
Asclepiadeae 65. 1810 (Mem. Wern. Nat. Hist. Soc. 1:75. 1811)
Verified:
01/19/2012
by ARS Systematic Botanists.
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Basionym
Echites scholaris
L.
Common names
Language
Name
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Citation
English
blackboardtree
1
Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds.
1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.,
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA)
5(1):88-89.
English
deviltree
1
Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
English
ditabark
1
Huxley, A., ed.
1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening
English
milkwood-pine
1
Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds.
1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.,
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA)
5(1):88-89.
English
milky-bean
1
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English
milky-pine
1
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English
pali-mari
1
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1196.
English
palmira alstonia
1
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
English
white cheesewood
1
Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds.
1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.,
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA)
5(1):88-89.
English
white-pine
1
Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS).
Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
Chinese
tang jiao shu
糖胶树
2
Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994-.
Flora of China (English edition).
French
echite
2
Hanelt, P., ed.
2001.
Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6
German
Teufelsbaum
2
Erhardt, W. et al.
2008. Der große Zander: Enzyklopädie der Pflanzennamen 2:1196.
Indonesian
pulai
2
Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds.
1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.,
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA)
5(1):88-89.
Malay
pulai
2
Soerianegara, I. & R. H. M. J. Lemmens, eds.
1993. Timber trees: major commercial timbers. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds.,
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA)
5(1):88-89.
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