Long Grass Nature Refuge
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Erect shrub to 12m, often suckering, forms thickets in mostly inland areas on NNSW and Queensland. Other names Bitter Bark, Quinine Tree. The bark becomes fissured and corky, and was used medicinally as it contains three alkaloids Alstonine, Porphrine and Astonidine, and traces of others. Leaves opposite, narrow, to 18cm, wavy margins, soft and thin, smooth to hairy. Petioles to 5mm. Flowers white, scented, in Spring. It was named by Robert Brown in 1811, after Charles Alston (1685-1760), Professor of botany at Edinburgh from 1716-1760.
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