Landscape Plants

Nine species of trees and shrubs, usually dioecious (male and female plants), evergreen or deciduous.  Leaves opposite, compound (odd, pinnate), leaflets oil-dotted, margin often has small rounded teeth (crenulate).  Flowers, in cluster, 4 or 5 sepels, petals, and stamens.  Fruit 1-5 parted.  Native to south and eastern Asia and western Malaysia.
Tetradium: from the Greek, tetradion, quartermium, a reference to the flower and fruit parts which usually occur in fours.