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Swizzlestick tree
Quararibea turbinata
About
Quararibea turbinata, also known as the swizzlestick tree, is an aromatic plant native to such Caribbean locales as Antigua, Barbados, Dominica, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Hispaniola, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts and Nevis, St. Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Virgin Islands. It is generally described as a perennial tree or shrub and its common name comes from its use as a swizzle stick and its association with cocktails such as the rum swizzle.
- Family
- Malvaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Quararibea turbinata
- Slug
- quararibea-turbinata
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Malvaceae
- Genus
- Quararibea
- Species
- turbinata
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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