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Seedlings of Cinchona succirubra, India, 1861 (photo)

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Seedlings of Cinchona succirubra, India, 1861 (photo)

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1861 AD (C19th AD)

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Photographed on arrival in Ootacamund, southern India, 9 April 1861. Collected by Richard Spruce in Ecuador, the plants were received by WIlliam McIvor, a former Kew gardener, who was superintendent of the Botanic Garden in Ootacamund, where he successfully cultivated the red bark trees. Extracts of the bark of Cinchona produced quinine, a malaria medicine

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The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew / Bridgeman Images

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