Everything about Cinchona Pubescens totally explained
Cinchona pubescens is known for its bark's high quinine content- and has similar uses to
Cinchona officinalis in the production of quinine, most famously used for treatment of malaria (Kinyuy et al. 1993). Its native range spans Costa Rica, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. In Ecuador,
C. pubescens is distributed within an altitude from 300 to 3900 m and has the widest distribution of all
Cinchona species (Acosta-Solis 1945; Missouri Botanical Garden specimen database 2002) Its distribution is at well documented by the Missouri Botanic Garden's Nomenclatural Data Base
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Planted outside of its native range on tropical islands it has become an
invasive species (Invasive Species Specialist Group. In
Galapagos it has become a dominant species in the formerly shrub dominated Miconia and Fern-Sedge zones (
sensu Wiggins and Porter 1971) on Santa Cruz Island (Buddenhagen & Yánez 2005; Buddenhagen et al. 2004; Jäger 1999; Kastdalen 1982; Lawesson 1990; Macdonald et al. 1988; Mauchamp 1997; Tye 2000; and see more references below). It is also invasive in Hawaii on Maui and the Big Island
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It has been subject to control in the [GalapagosNational Park]
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Buddenhagen et al. 2004), but controlling it over its total range on Santa Cruz island would cost several million US dollars according to research done through the
Charles Darwin Foundation(External Link) (Buddenhagen and Yanez 2005).
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