Drimys winteri

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Drimys winteri
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Magnoliids
Order: Canellales
Family: Winteraceae
Genus: Drimys
Species:
D. winteri
Binomial name
Drimys winteri
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Drimys winteri, also known as Winter's bark, foye [2] and canelo, is a slender species of tree in the family Winteraceae, growing up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. It is native to the Magellanic and Valdivian temperate forests of Chile and Argentina, where it is a dominant tree in the coastal evergreen forests. It is found below 1,200 m (3,900 ft) between latitude 32° south and Cape Horn at latitude 56°. In its southernmost natural range it can tolerate temperatures down to −20 °C (−4 °F). [3] The plant is renowned for its phenotypic plasticity being able to grow in different sites from "extreme arid zones to wetlands along Chile". [4] [5] The tree does also grow in places with various types and degrees of competition from other plants. [5]

Description

The leaves are lanceolate, glossy green above, whitish below and can measure up to 20 cm (8 in). The flowers are white with a yellow center, and consist of a great number of petals and stamens. The fruit is a bluish berry.

The height–diameter relation of D. winteri varies greatly. There is for example more spread in D. winteri height–diameter relations than for Nothofagus species. [5] Part of the spread can be explained as reflecting higher tree density that correlates with larger heights for a given diameter. [5] [ clarification needed ] Within its range D. winteri is more frost-tolerant than naturally occurring conifers and vessel-bearing angiosperms such as the Nothofagus. [6] This challenged conventional views that plants without vessels such as D. winteri would be biological relicts poorly adapted to cold. [6]

History

The canelo or foye is the sacred tree of the Mapuche, who associated it with "good, peace and justice", [7] often planted in special gatherings. Priests of their native religion were named foyeweye or boquibuye, "servant of the foye". [2]

When Sir Francis Drake sailed round the world in 1577-80, of the four ships accompanying the Golden Hind at the outset, the only ship that successfully reached the entrance to the Strait of Magellan was the Elizabeth, captained by John Wynter. Before entering the Strait, in July 1578, Drake sent Wynter ashore where he learned indigenous people ate the astringent bark. [8] The Elizabeth transversed the Strait. A week later the two ships were separated in a storm and Wynter turned back. Wynter returned in 1580 [9] with a supply of Drimys bark, and for centuries before vitamin C was isolated, "Winter's Bark" was esteemed as a preventive and remedy for scurvy— correctly so, for an infusion of D. winteri sustained Captain James Cook and his crew in the South Pacific, and the naturalist accompanying his voyage of exploration, Johann Reinhold Forster, was the first to officially describe and name D. winteri. [10]

Cultivation

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A rewe and canelo tree in the Austral University of Chile.
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fruits

Drimys winteri is grown in cool moist climates [11] as an ornamental plant for its red-brown bark, bright green fragrant leaves and its clusters of creamy white jasmine-scented flowers.

The species grows well in southern Great Britain, flourishing as far north as Anglesey. Specimens brought from the southern forests of Tierra del Fuego and planted in the Faroe Islands have proven to be especially hardy. [12]

This plant has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. [13] [14]

It has been planted in the North Pacific Coast of the United States. [15]

The species is considered to have a potential for flood mitigation in northern Chile if planted in valleys. [4]

Other uses

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 it gives off a spicy smoke.

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. [16]

D. winteri is an insect repellent and fumigant. [17] Zapata & Smagghe 2010 test the essential oils of bark and leaves and find that both are repellent and usable as a fumigant against Tribolium castaneum . [17]

Notes

  1. ↑ Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI).; IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group (2018). "Drimys winteri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018: e.T61968097A135698496. doi: 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T61968097A135698496.en . Retrieved 19 November 2021.
  2. 1 2 de Mösbach, Ernesto Wilhelm (1992). Botánica indígena de Chile (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Editorial Andrés Bello. pp. 78–79. ISBN   956130970X.
  3. ↑ "Angiosperms (Flowering Plants)". Earth.com. Retrieved 2023-10-19.
  4. 1 2 Bustos-Salazar, Angela; Smith-Ramírez, Cecilia; Zúñiga-Feest, Alejandra; Alves, Fernanda; Ivanovich, Rodrigo (2017). "Which seed origin provides better tolerance to flooding and drought when restoring to face climate change?". Austral Ecology . 42 (8): 934–946. Bibcode:2017AusEc..42..934B. doi:10.1111/aec.12521.
  5. 1 2 3 4 Salas-Eljatib, Christian; Cordvalán, Patricio; Pino, Nicolás; Donoso, Pablo J.; Soto, Daniel P. (2019). "Modelos de efectos mixtos de altura-diámetro para Drimys winteri en el sur (41-43° S) de Chile" [Mixed-effects height-diameter models for Drimys winteri in the south (41-43° S) of Chile]. Bosque (in Spanish). 40 (1). Austral University of Chile: 71–80. doi: 10.4067/S0717-92002019000100071 .
  6. 1 2 Feild, Taylor S.; Brodribb, Tim; Holbrook, N. Michele (2002). "Hardly a relict: Freezing and the evolution of vesselless wood in Winteraceae". Evolution . 56 (3): 464–478. doi:10.1111/j.0014-3820.2002.tb01359.x. PMID   11989678. S2CID   31376453.
  7. ↑ Montecino Aguirre, Sonia (2015). "Canelo". Mitos de Chile: Enciclopedia de seres, apariciones y encantos (in Spanish). Catalonia. pp. 126–127. ISBN   978-956-324-375-8.
  8. ↑ Lynch, Robert G.; Spivak, Samuel (2017). Two Voyages to the Pacific Coast of North America: Francis Drake and Brune de Hezeta, Their Voyages Compared with Information about Scurvy. San Francisco: Drake Navigators Guild. p. 37.
  9. ↑ Coote, Stephen (2005). Drake: The Life and Legend of an Elizabethan Hero. New York: Thomas Dunne Books. ISBN   9780743468701.
  10. ↑ Alice M. Coats, Garden Shrubs and Their Histories (1964) 1992, s.v. "Drimys".
  11. ↑ John L. Creech, providing American garden notes for Coats 1992, remarks of D. winteri and Tasmanian D. aromatica, both grown in British gardens, "These two species have not had much success here"; Drimys winteri is grown in the San Francisco Botanical Garden Archived 2012-03-09 at the Wayback Machine : (Capt. Winter is identified as "William Winter").
  12. ↑ Højgaard, A., J. Jóhansen, and S. Ødum (eds) 1989. A century of tree planting in the Faroe Islands. Føroya Frodskaparfelag, Torshavn.
  13. ↑ "Drimys winteri". Royal Horticultural Society. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  14. ↑ "AGM Plants - Ornamental" (PDF). Royal Horticultural Society. July 2017. p. 33. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
  15. ↑ "Drimys winteri in Washington Park Arboretum" (PDF). Seattle Government. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-03-24. Retrieved 2009-06-27.
  16. ↑ Muñoz-Concha, D., Vogel, H., Yunesc, R., Razmilic, I., Brescianic, L., and Malheiros, A., Presence of polygodial and drimenol in Drimys populations from Chile, Biochemical Systematics and Ecology, Volume 35, Issue 7, July 2007, Pages 434-438
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