Drimys winteri

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Drimys winteri

Drimys winteri (Winter's Bark), or Canelo, is a slender tree

TREE

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, growing up to 20 m (65 ft) tall. It is native to the Magellanic

Magellanic subpolar forests

The Magellanic subpolar forests are a terrestrial ecoregion of southernmost South America, covering parts of southern Chile and Argentina, and is part of the Neotropic ecozone....
and Valdivian temperate rain forests

Valdivian temperate rain forests

The Valdivian temperate rain forests are a Temperate broadleaf and mixed forests terrestrial ecoregion located on the west coast of southern South America, lying mostly in Chile and extending into a small part of Argentina....
of Chile and Argentina, where it is a dominant tree in the coastal evergreen forests. It is found below 1200 meters (4000 ft) between latitude 32° South and Cape Horn

Cape Horn

Cape Horn island is the southernmost Headlands and bays of the Tierra del Fuego archipelago of southern Chile.Cape Horn is widely considered to be the most southerly point of South America, and marks the northern boundary of the Drake Passage; for many years it was a major milestone on the clipper route, by which sailing ships carried tr...
at latitude 56°. In its southernmost natural range it can tolerate temperatures down to −20 °C (−4 °F).

Leaves

Leaves

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are lanceolate, glossy green above, whitish below and can measure up to 20 cm (7 in).

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Drimys winteri (Winter's Bark), or Canelo, is a slender tree

TREE

Magellanic subpolar forests

Valdivian temperate rain forests

Cape Horn

Leaves

Flower

A flower, sometimes known as a bloom or blossom, is the reproduction structure found in flowering plants . The biological function of a flower is to mediate the union of male sperm with female ovum in order to produce seeds....
is white with its center yellow and is made up by a great number of petals and stamen

Stamen

The stamen is the male organ of a flower. Each stamen generally has a stalk called the filament , and, on top of the filament, an anther , and pollen sacs, called sporangium....
s. Its fruit is a bluish berry

Berry

In everyday English, a berry is a broad term for any small edible fruit. Most berries are juicy, round or semi-oblong, brightly coloured, sweet or sour, and don't have a stone or pit....
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It is also grown as an ornamental plant

Ornamental plant

Ornamental plants are typically grown in the flower garden or as house plants. Most commonly they are grown for the display of their flowers. Other common ornamental features include leaves, scent, fruit, Plant stem and bark....
for its red-brown bark, bright green fragrant leaves and its clusters of creamy white jasmine

Jasmine

Jasmine is a genus of shrubs and vines in the olive family ,with about 200 species, native to tropical and warm temperate regions of the Old World....
-scented flowers. The bark is gray, thick and soft and is used as a pepper replacement in Argentina and Chile. The peppery compound in Canelo is polygodial

Polygodial

Polygodial is an active constituent of Tasmannia stipitata, Tasmannia, Pseudowintera, Drimys winteri, Spilanthes acmella and Water-pepper.Chemically it is a drimane of formula C15H22O2....
. D. winteri was also the first commercial source of vitamin C

Vitamin C

Vitamin C or ascorbic acid is an essential nutrient for humans, a large number of simian species, a small number of other mammalian species , a few species of birds, and some fish....
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The species grows well in South England, but specimens brought from the southern forests of Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego

Tierra del Fuego is an archipelago separated from the southernmost tip of the South American mainland by the Strait of Magellan. The southern point of the archipelago forms Cape Horn....
and planted in the Faroe Islands

Faroe Islands

The Faroe Islands or Faeroe Islands or simply Faroe or Faeroes are an island group situated between the Norwegian Sea and the North Atlantic Ocean, approximately half way between Scotland and Iceland....
have proven to be especially hardy.A fine specimen is found in Northumberland

Northumberland

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. It has been introduced as ornamental in the North Pacific Coast of the United States

United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
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Canelo wood is reddish in color and heavy, with a very beautiful grain. It is used for furniture and music instruments. The wood is not durable outdoors because continuous rainfalls damage it. The wood is not good for making bonfires because gives off a spicy smoke.

External links

. Hanburgy, Daniel and Friedrich August Flückiger (1879). Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin... London: Macmillan and Co. pp 17-20.