What Does Quebracho Mean?

Quebracho is basically a very common name in Spanish for three different trees that belong to one particular species. These trees grow in Gran Chaco region of South America. These species are Schinopsis lorentzii (quebracho colorado santiagueño), that belongs to the family of Anacardiaceae; Schinopsis balansae (quebracho colorado chaqueño), which also comes from the similar family and Aspidosperma quebracho-blanco ("white quebracho"), which comes from the family of Apocynaceae.

These trees offer tannin and also very hard and hard-wearing timber. Its name is somehow related to the commercial name for tannin. The name is derived from the Spanish word quiebrahacha, which means "axe-breaker". The tannic acid generally tends to turn the soil into red colour. Some sources that claim that this word is derived from the Spanish, alteration of quiebrahacha, quebrar, which means to break.

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