CHINABERRY Synonyms

• evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans

• tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

• tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

• evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans

• genus of Old World shrubs or low trees having fragrant flowers in showy panicles: lilacs

• large hardy shrub with showy and strongly fragrant creamy-white flowers in short terminal racemes

• small tree of West Indies and northeastern Venezuela having large oblong pointed leaflets and panicles of purple flowers; seeds are black or scarlet with black spots

• tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

• evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans

• tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

• tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

• tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

• small densely branching Asiatic shrub having lanceolate leaves and panicles of fragrant lilac flowers

• tree of northern India and China having purple blossoms and small inedible yellow fruits; naturalized in the southern United States as a shade tree

• native to Asia, Australia, and East Indies, where it provides timber called pyinma; used elsewhere as an ornamental for its large showy flowers

• evergreen of tropical America having pulpy fruit containing saponin which was used as soap by Native Americans

• small evergreen of eastern North America having tiny scalelike leaves on flattened branchlets

• slow-growing medium-sized cedar of east coast of the United States; resembles American arborvitae