Joanne Pei-Chih Tan, Sheh May Tam, Ruth Kiew
Phytokeys
Figure 1.
Watercolour painting of Begoniarajah of an original wild-collected plant grown in the Botanic Gardens, Singapore. (Reproduced with permission of the Singapore Botanic Gardens)
In a large greenhouse at the Missouri Botanical Garden in St. Louis, Missouri, there grows a slender sapling of Cinchona pubescens, a tree that has played a remarkable role in human history. Journeying to this artificial tropical forest under glass, Ari Daniel Shapiro asks curators Carmen Ulloa Ulloa and Charlotte Taylor just what makes this famous “fever tree” special. read moreDuration: 5:07Published: Tue, 08 Feb 2011 20:04:41 +0000