Details for: PI 65247, Alstonia scholaris (L.) R. Br., Devil tree

Summary 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

Inventory Volume:

85
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Availability

Form	Quantity	Note	Inventory	Cart
Cutting	1 count		PI 65247 PL

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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	Alternate name	seq	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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