Kew Gardens discovers South American plants could cure malaria
Finding comes as the Unesco site is recognised by Guinness World Records
Giant water lilies Victoria Amazonica, the world's largest.
Researchers from London's Kew Gardens said on Thursday that the cure to malaria could lie in plants South American tribes use to treat the disease, which kills tens of thousands of people a year.
Their findings were released on the day the gardens were honoured in Guinness World Records 2022 for housing the globe's largest plant collection.
The Kew scientists found indigenous populations in regions such as the Amazon had used more than 1,000 plant species to combat malaria.
Among these plants are the Aspidosperma excelsum Benth and the Cinchona officinalis bark, the latter of which is used by tribes in Colombia.
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