Linnaeus named this genus of tree species after the Countess of Chinchon, according to legend, promoted the use of the medicinal bark after she herself was successfully treated for malaria in the 1630s. The scientific name was later modified from Chinchona to Cinchona, which is the accepted spe...
Fig. 1. Flowering Cinchona tree at the New York botanical garden (RUBIACEAE Cinchona Pubescens.jpg from Wikimedia Commons). Although the chiral application of the Cinchona alkaloids dates back to 185311 they have been rediscovered outside their medicinal uses as efficient chiral reagents, chiral auxi...
Cinchona is the national tree of Ecuador and is on the coat of arms of Peru. Keywords: Cinchona chomeliana; Cinchona lutea; Cinchona ovata; Cinchona succirubra; Rubiaceae; Chinarinde; Chinarindenbaum; Red cinchona; Red quinine tree; Peruvian bark; Jesuit bark; Countess bark; Kinaboom; Arbre...