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fever tree

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fever tree
albiziatanganyicensis or A. versicolor.


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A gin and tonic with a great gin and Fever Tree tonic water, along with a nice, fresh lime, truly is a little slice of heaven," says beverage director Rick Pitcher.
As we taxied down the dirt airstrip in a cloud of red dust, a small herd of giraffe steadily nibbled the fever trees.
If the countess had known the chronicle of the Augustinian order in Peru, written in Lima by the friar Antonio de la Calancha sometime before her purported malarial bout, she would have read this: "A tree grows which they call the fever tree (arbol de calenturas), in the country of Loja, whose bark, of the color of cinnamon, made into a powder amounting to the weight of two small silver coins and given as a beverage, cures the fevers and tertianas; it has produced miraculous results in Lima.
 
 
 
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