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Pinckneya

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Noun1.Pinckneya - small genus of shrubs or small trees of southeastern United States and northern South America
genus Pinckneya
asterid dicot genus - genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs
family Rubiaceae, madder family, Rubiaceae - widely distributed family of mostly tropical trees and shrubs and herbs; includes coffee and chinchona and gardenia and madder and bedstraws and partridgeberry
bitter-bark, Georgia bark, Pinckneya pubens, fever tree - ornamental shrub or small tree of swampy areas in southwestern United States having large pink or white sepals and yielding Georgia bark for treating fever
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Prioleau, (54) director of the Macon laboratory, agreed to pay citizens 75cents/lb for Pinckneya pubens (Georgia bark, native to southern Georgia) only to be told by Johns in Richmond to pay no more than 30cents/lb.
The Confederate medical laboratories by Hambrecht, F. Terry / Southern Medical Journal
With a 10-inch girth, the pinckneya just makes the 3-inch-diameter requirement to be a tree but soars 5 feet above the 13-foot height minimum.
New champs in height and breath: General Sherman gets smaller, ... by Bronaugh, Whit / American Forests
glauca, White spruce Picea mariana, Black spruce Picea pungens, Blue spruce Picea rubens, Red spruce Picea sitchensis, Sitka spruce Picramnia pentandra, Bitterbush Pinckneya pubens, Piackneya Pinus albicaulis, Whitebark pine Pinus aristata var.
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