About red cinchona
Cinchona pubescens, also known as red cinchona and quina or kina (Spanish: Cascarilla, cinchona; Portuguese: quina-do-amazonas, quineira), is native to Central and South America. It is known as a medicinal plant for its bark's high quinine content- and has similar uses to C. officinalis in the production of quinine, most famously used for treatment of malaria.
Description adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Plant Details
- Scientific name
- Cinchona succirubra
- Genus
- Cinchona
- Family
- RUBIACEAE
- Habit
- Tree
- Habitat
- Cultivated
- Native to
- Ecuador
- Distribution
- Introduced in the old world Tropics
- Flowering & fruiting
- February-December
- Conservation status
- Not Evaluated (NE)
Botanical family
Rubiaceae
Coffee/Madder family
red cinchona belongs to the Rubiaceae family.
The illustration represents the family — not necessarily this exact species.
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