Cinchona
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(sngk´n) or chinchona(chngk´n), name for species of the genus Cinchona, ...
Cinchona - Cinchona Trees
Cinchona pubescens - Quinine Tree
Exostema - Exostema Trees
Exostema caribaeum - Princewood; Caribbean Princewood ...
CINCHONA TREE
The cinchona tree is a tropical tree that is the primary source of the anit-malarial drug quinine. Quinine is found in the bark of the cinchona tree.
Red Cinchona [English]: Cinchona pubescens
Red Cinderella Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Red Cinderella'
Red Cinquefoil [English]: Potentilla concinna
Red Circles Daylily [English]: Hemerocallis 'Red Circles' ...
It is used as a shade plant in coffee, rubber, cacao and cinchona plantations, for reforestation, windbreaks and firebreaks. Necklaces are made with the seeds.
Some are enclosed within the tube of the flower, as in Cinchona (included); others are exserted, or extend beyond the flower, as in Littorella or Plantago.
Caution: Fruit and leaf: Cassia is incompatible with cinchona, heavy metal salts, mineral acids, carbonates and lime water.
Cinchona pubescens (Quinine)
Coffea arabica (Coffee Plant)
Coprosma kirkii
Coprosma pumila
Coprosma repens (Mirror Plant)
Galium odoratum (Sweet Woodruff, Sweet-scented Bedstraw)
Gardenia jasminoides (Gardenia)
Gardenia thunbergia (Star Gardenia) ...
The bark of the cinchona tree was used 400 years ago to reduce fever. It is still used to make quinine, a drug used to treat malaria and other diseases. Another drug, called digitalis, is used in treating heart disease.
---Medicinal Action and Uses---Though Alstonia is used in India and Eastern Colonies for malarial conditions, its efficacy in this respect is not to be compared with cinchona bark, though it does not produce the bad effects cinchona does.
Presl, Chironiales Grisebach, Cinchonales Lindley, Galiales Bromhead, Loganiales Lindley, Lygodisodeales Martius, Rubiales Berchtold & J. Presl, Strychnales Link, Theligonales Nakai, Vincales Horaninow ...
Hope grew up in Sweetwater, Texas, but discovered Costa Rica during World War II when the Army assigned him the task of establishing New World plantations of Cinchona, the plant from which quinine is extracted.
Other well-known members of the Madder family include the anti-malarial alkaloid quinine (Cinchona), and the ornamental Gardenia. Most plants of this family grow in the tropics, many of them as shrubs or trees.
quinine Cinchona pubescens
rabbit-foot clover Trifolium arvense
rabbitfoot grass Polypogon monspeliensis
ragged robin, cuckoo flower Lychnis flos-cuculi
ragwort; common groundsel Senecio vulgaris
raintree Samanea saman ...
Quina roja - Cinchona succirubra
Quinina australiana - Alstonia constricta
Quinoa - Chenopodium quinoa
Quinquefolio - Potentilla reptans
Quirola - Calluna vulgaris
Rabanillo - Sisymbrium officinale
Rabaniza - Raphanus sativus ...
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