Alyxia stellata is a plant in family Apocynaceae. Its white bark gives away a certain distinctive smell and bitter taste. This plant grows wild in the forests and in the fields of mountainous area. The bark contains: tannic substances, coumarin

Coumarin

Coumarin is a fragrant chemical compound in the benzopyrone chemical class, found in many plants, notably in high concentration in the tonka bean , vanilla grass , sweet woodruff , mullein , sweet grass , cassia cinnamon and sweet clover...

, bitter substances, and alkaloids.

In Indonesia

Indonesia

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, this plant (known as palasan or pulosari in Indonesian language

Indonesian language

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) is used as an ingredient for making herbal remedies and also spices in cookings.