1. 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
   "The Pinckneya pubens's pink sepals stood out against the dark swamp";
   - fever tree, Georgia bark, bitter-bark

Type of: bush, shrub

Part of: genus Pinckneya, Pinckneya

Encyclopedia: Pinckneya pubens