Common Name:
Soap-bark Tree
Several (as many as 9) species of evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves alternate, simple, leathery, and glossy green. Flowers bisexual or unisexual, mostly 5-parted, 10 stamens. Fruit a group of 5 spreading follicles (star-shaped) containing many seeds. Native to temperate South America.
Quillaja: the Chilean name for the Soap-bark Tree.
Pronunciation:
kwi-LA-ha
Family:
Quillajaceae, formerly in Rosaceae