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Drimys winteri
''Drimys winteri'' (winter's bark or canelo) is a slender tree, growing up to tall. It is native to the Magellanic and Valdivian temperate rain forests of Chile and Argentina, where it is a dominant tree in the coastal evergreen forests. It is found below between latitude 32° south and Cape Horn at latitude 56°. In its southernmost natural range it can tolerate temperatures down to .
The leaves are lanceolate, glossy green above, whitish below and can measure up to . The flowers are white with a yellow center, and comprise a great number of petals and stamens. The fruit is a bluish berry.
==History==
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 rounded Cape Horn with him was the ''Elizabeth'', captained by John Winter; the two ships separated in a storm and Winter turned back. Presumably he had sickness on board, for he sent a boat ashore to search out medicinal herbs. He returned in 1579 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''.〔Alice M. Coats, ''Garden Shrubs and Their Histories'' (1964) 1992, ''s.v.'' "Drimys".〕
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