A friendly tour guide with a sober topic, Jäger points out Cinchona pubescens, or red quinine trees, one of the hundred most invasive species in the world. In the highest zone of Isla Santa Cruz ...

ALTHOUGH three centuries have elapsed since cinchona bark was introduced into European medicine for the treatment of malaria and it is nearly a century since the last of the four alkaloids ...

A laborer scrapes the bark from a cinchona tree. The bark is then sundried and pulverized to make the drug quinine. The story behind the chance discovery of the anti-malarial drug quinine may be ...

W. Woltz, N. P. Schwarz, and M. A. Pepper. 2011. Galapagos rail (Lateralis spilonotus) population change associated with habitat invasion by the red-barked quinine tree (Cinchona pubescens). Bird ...