Cinchona
Cinchona is a
genus of about 25
species in the
family Rubiaceae, native to tropical
South America. They are large
shrubs or small
trees growing to 5-15
metres tall with
evergreen foliage.The
leaves are opposite, rounded to lanceolate, 10-40 cm long. The
flowers are white, pink or red, produced in terminal
panicles. The
fruit is a small
capsule containing numerous
seeds.The name of the genus is due to
Linnaeus, who named the tree in
1742 after a
Countess of Chinchon, the wife of a viceroy of Peru, who, in 1638, was introduced by natives to the medicinal properties of the bark. Stories of the medicinal properties of this bark, however, are perhaps noted in journals as far back as the
1560s-
1570s (see the Ortiz link below).
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Cinchona
Chinarindenbäume
Die Chinarindenbäume (Cinchona) bilden eine
Gattung mit über 40 verschiedenen
Arten von immergrünen Bäumen, die über 10 m hoch werden können. Der Chinarindenbaum stammt ursprünglich aus den Bergregionen des nördlichen Südamerikas und wird vor allem in
Indien und im
Kongo kultiviert.
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Cinchona