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Cinchona

Montana Public Radio | By mtpr.org

Published January 24, 2014 at 8:00 AM MST

January 25th, 2014: Cinchona is the national tree of Peru and Ecuador. Its bark contains the alkaloid quinine, which since the 1600s, has been used to treat the fever and chills of malaria.

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