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Cinchona - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Britannica online encyclopedia article on Cinchona (plant genus), genus of about 40 species of plants, mostly trees, in the madder family (Rubiaceae), native to the Andes of South America. The flowers are small and usually creamy-white or rose in colour. ... Four species of Cinchona were cultivated for many years,
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Cinchona hunter - forest history from American Forests provided by Find Articles at BNET ... For months at a time I had been traveling in the high Andes of Colombia in search of cinchona trees, then the only source of quinine. Remote homesteads had sheltered me, but often I stayed in one-night huts of leaves and in caves.
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About 40 species, including: Cinchona calisaya Cinchona cordifolia Cinchona micrantha Cinchona officinalis Cinchona pubescens Cinchona is a genus of about 40 species in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical South America. ... Cinchona is a genus of about 40 species in the family Rubiaceae, native to tropical South...
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cinchona medical information ... The dried bark of the root and stem of various species of Cinchona, a genus of evergreen trees (family Rubiaceae), native of South America but cultivated in various tropic regions. The cultivated bark contains 7–10% of total alkaloids;
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The Medscape Journal ... Cinchona Alkaloids [chemistry] ... 0 (Cinchona Alkaloids)
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Three known Cinchona alkaloids of the quinine type, quinine (1), cupreine (2), cinchonine (3), and the possible artifact cinchonine-HCl (3-HCl), along with two new ones, acetylcupreine (4) and N-ethylquinine (5), have been isolated from the bark of Remijia peruviana (Rubiaceae). ... 0 (Cinchona Alkaloids)
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