Quinine Tree

Rauvolfia caffra

Summary 6

Rauvolfia caffra is a tree in the Apocynaceae family. It is commonly known as the Quinine tree. These trees are distributed from the Eastern Cape of South Africa to tropical Africa and are found in swamp forests, riparian forests, or on floodplains.

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  1. (c) Ricky Taylor, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Ricky Taylor
  2. (c) TanzaniaPlantCollaboration, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/ncordeiro/7821252004/
  3. (c) Scamperdale, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), https://www.flickr.com/photos/36517976@N06/3425295119/
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  5. (c) Bernard DUPONT, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/berniedup/11452780935/
  6. Adapted by Ricky Taylor from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rauvolfia_caffra

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Degree of waterlogging 3_forest_damp_but_without_standing_water, 4_Forest_margin_with_dryland