The Fever Tree (3) Improvements in the understanding of how to cultivate cinchona trees and the introduction of Ledgeriana cinchona, whose seeds and cuttings the Dutch East Indian Government were prepared to supply f…

Completing the story of #quinine #cinchona #fevertree
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The Fever Tree (2) It can be fairly argued that along with Jared Diamond’s Guns, Germs and Steel cinchona bark, valued for its medicinal properties in the treatment of malaria, played a major role in the successful c…

The role of #cinchona in #imperialism #fevertree #quinine
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Edmund Tanner: fifty years of devotion to the Blue Mountain forests of Jamaica Please enjoy this wonderful blog post by Conliffe Wilmot-Simpson – conservationist, Nature lover and volunteer. Cinchona Botanical Gardens has always fascinated me, but in nearly forty years …

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Sharing a wonderful post about Prof Ed Tanner of #CambridgeUniversity who devoted decades of his life to research the Grand Ridge and #Cinchona Botanical Gardens of Jamaica’s #BlueMountains 🌳

The Fever Tree One of the reasons, it is said, for the popularity of mixing a gin with Indian tonic water is because of the presence of quinine in the latter, a known antidote to malaria. Quinine comes from the c…

The story of #cinchona - the #fevertree #quinine
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The Medicinal Natural Product of this week is #Quinine!

This alkaloid was first isolated from the Peruvian #cinchona tree. Quinine can be used as an #antimalaria drug and also in the treatment of babesiosis.

#GrowingTogether #NaturalProduct #MedicinalChemistry #malaria #bioactive

Prong-billed Barbets in love. #Cinchona #CostaRica 3/25 Sony #a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm. Program w/my #birds & #wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #photography #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

Northern Emerald Toucanet. #Cinchona #CostaRica 3/25 Sony #a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm. Program w/my #birds & #wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #photography #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

Female Green-crowned Brilliant #hummingbird #Cinchona #CostaRica 3/25 Sony #a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm. Program w/my #birds & #wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #photography #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

Black-headed Saltator (“dancer”). #Cinchona #CostaRica 3/25 Sony #a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm. Program w/my #birds & #wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #photography #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

Red-legged Honeycreeper. A Tanager actually. #Cinchona #CostaRica 3/25 Sony #a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm. Program w/my #birds & #wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #photography #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

Silver-throated Tanager. Too common for its own good. :) #Cinchona #CostaRica 3/25 Sony #a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm Program w/my #birds & #wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #photography #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

Scarlet-thighed Dacnis. #Cinchona #CostaRica 3/25 Life bird and photo. Not great, but. Sony #a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm Program w/my #birds & #wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #photography #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

Violet Saberwing hummingbird. #Cinchona #CostaRica 3/25 Sony #a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm. Program w/my #birds & #wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #photography #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature

Crimson-collared Tanager #Cinchona #CostaRica 3/25 Sony #a6700 #Tamron 50-400 @ 600mm. Program w/my #birds & #wildlife mods. #Photomator #nature #photography #birdphotography #Point’nShootNature