Bitter bark
Alstonia constricta
Erect shrub or tree to 12 m high, often suckering and forming thickets; bark fissured, corky.
Leaves opposite, narrow-lanceolate to narrow-elliptic or oblong-elliptic, 6–18 cm long, 7–45 mm wide, apex ± acuminate, margins undulate, soft and thin, glabrous to pubescent; petiole 1–5 cm long.
Flowers whitish, scented. Calyx lobes 1 mm long. Corolla tube 2–3 mm long, lobes 6–10 mm long, narrow, obtuse.
Follicles compressed, 6–24 cm long, c. 10 mm wide.
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