Bark Collection

Seedlings of Cinchona succirubra, India, 1861
Seedlings of Cinchona succirubra, photographed on arrival in Ootacamund, southern India, 9 April 1861. Collected by Richard Spruce in Ecuador, the plants were received by WIlliam McIvor

Henry Ridley and rubber tree, Singapore
Extension of original cutting on an old Para rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis - Henry Ridley ( Rubber Ridley ) and rubber tree, tapped for latex

Cinchona bark specimens from the Economic Botany Collection, RBG Kew. Cinchona bark and its derived quinine alkaloids were the most effective treatment for malaria from the 17th century to the 1940s

Harvesting and processing cinchona bark on a Java plantation

Baillonella toxisperma Sapotaceae, 2009
A Baillonella toxisperma sapling tree photographed in the Lekoumou Department in Congo (Brazzaville), 2009

Sorbus pseudofennica
ROSACEAE, Sorbus pseudofennica 19801818

Cultivation of Cinchona succirubra trees on the Madulsima Cinchona Cos estate, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) 1882. The plants pictured are 8 -10 years old

769. White Gum and Stringy-bark Trees, New South Wales
The bark of the latter (Eucalyptus obliqua, L Her.) comes off in large slabs, and is used in making wigwams and roofs; and the natives also use it when they wish to cross a river

565. Palawan Trees, Sarawak, Borneo
This tree ( Tristania Whiteana, Griff.) is easily recognised in the landscape, as i sheds its bark like an Arbutus, leaving the trunk a deep red

Cratageus ambigua
ROSACEAE, Cratageus ambigua, 6903669001

Pinus nigra, sub sp. laricio
PINACEAE, Pinus nigra, sub sp. laricio 197315509

Crataegus prunifolia
hawthorn

Catalpa bignonioides
Indian bean tree

Eucalyptus champaniana
bogong gum

Betula papyrifera
paper birch

Betula costata
chinese birch

Eucalyptus perriniana
spinning gum

Quercus robur
common oak

Catalpa fargesii
bark of the Golden Indian bean tree

Mimosa suma, R
Watercolour on paper, no date (late 18th, early 19th century). Hand painted copy of an illustration commissioned by William Roxburgh (1751-1815)

Necklace of spices
Necklace with beads of Coix, Dioclea, Adenanthera, Myristica and Mucuna - cinnamon bark, cloves and nutmeg. Sourced in Grenada, Spain. RBG Kew Economic Botany Collection, Catalogue Number: 78869

Acer griseum seeds
Acer griseum

Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp pauciflora
snow gum

Crataegomespilus dardarii

Fraxinus pensylvanica, Oleaceae
green ash

Acer davidii trunk
ACERACEAE Acer davidii 1994924SICH630 china

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