M0011625: Cinchona succirubra. Habitat Loxa.

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Reproduction of an illustration of Cinchona succirubra from Loxa, Ecuador, then a province of Peru, where the first Cinchona bark used by Europeans was obtained. It was published in the handbook produced to accompany the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum's "Cinchona Tercentenary Celebration and Exhibition" held in 1930

M0011625: Cinchona succirubra. Habitat Loxa.

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