Picrasma quassioides (picrasma; Chinese: 苦樹 ku shu, Japanese: ニガキ nigaki "bitterwood"; also India quassia, quassia wood, shurni, quassia-wood, or quassiawood; syn. P. ailanthioides) is a species of Picrasma native to temperate regions of southern Asia, from the northeast of Pakistan east along the Himalaya and through East Asia from southern, central and eastern China to Taiwan, Japan and Korea.
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Picrasma quassioides being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Toxicodendron vernicifluum — considered toxic
- Phellodendron amurense
- Eurycorymbus cavaleriei
- Fraxinus mandshurica
- Brucea javanica
- Tetradium daniellii
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Sapindales
- Family
- Simaroubaceae
- Genus
- Picrasma
- Species
- Picrasma quassioides
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