cinchona, chinchona

any of several trees of the genus Cinchona

• Cartagena bark, Cinchona cordifolia, Cinchona lancifolia — Colombian tree; source of Cartagena bark (a cinchona bark)
• calisaya, Cinchona officinalis, Cinchona ledgeriana, Cinchona calisaya — Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark
• cinchona tree, Cinchona pubescens — small tree of Ecuador and Peru having very large glossy leaves and large panicles of fragrant pink flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark

• tree — a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms

• cinchona bark, Peruvian bark, Jesuit's bark — medicinal bark of cinchona trees; source of quinine and quinidine

• genus Cinchona, genus Chinchona — large genus of trees of Andean region of South America having medicinal bark