Natural History Gallery

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Choose from 9 images in our Natural History collection.

The Rhododendron Dell, Kew Gardens

Seedlings of Cinchona succirubra, India, 1861

Artocarpus altilis

Directors House and Garden, Kew. Sir William Turner Thiselton-Dyer and Harriet Anne Thiselton-Dyer

House of Walter Haydon, curator of the botanic station at Kotu in Gambia

The Palm House, Kew Gardens

Sir William Hooker

Miss Cotton posing on the leaf of giant waterlily Kew Gardens, 1923

Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker

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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, 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