Fever Tree

The Fever Tree was once suspected of being the source of malaria because of its tendency to grow in swampy areas ... and hence its name. Now of course it's known that malarial fever is spread by mosquitos living in these swampy areas.

The tree has a distinctive greenish-yellow bark and it's one of the few trees where photosynthesis takes place in the bark, rather than (only) in the leaves. This shot is a bit of an experiment using an unusual camera angle to emphasize the stem and its dominance in the photo.

The fever tree is immortalized in Rudyard Kipling's The Elephant's Child: "Then Kolokolo Bird said, with a mournful cry, 'Go to the banks of the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, and find out.'"