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Fever Tree (Acacia xanthofloea)
This tree from South Africa has a beautiful yellowish colored trunk and sulfur yellow flowers. Early pioneers of the area thought this tree caused a fever, since people traveling or living in the areas where it grew contracted bad fevers. Therefore, they associated the fever with the tree. This, however, was erroneous as the swampy places where fever trees grow are also ideal breeding grounds for mosquitoes, which carry malaria. Through these early settlers, the myth was born and the plant acquired its name, the fever tree.
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