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Botanic garden at Hakgala

Botanic garden at Hakgala is the second largest gardens in Sri Lanka. The main reason to establish the garden at Hakgala was cultivation and promotion of Cinchona. Medicinal use..The medicinally active bark, which is stripped from the tree, dried and powdered, includes other alkaloids that are closely related to quinine but react differently in treating malaria. As a medicinal herb, cinchona bark is also known as Jesuit's bark or Peruvian bark.....The garden was established in 1861 with the auspices of Mr G.H.W. Thawaites then director of Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya and M.R. W. MacNichholl was the pioneer curator of the gardens

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Botanic garden at Hakgala is the second largest gardens in Sri Lanka. The main reason to establish the garden at Hakgala was cultivation and promotion of Cinchona. Medicinal use..The medicinally active bark, which is stripped from the tree, dried and powdered, includes other alkaloids that are closely related to quinine but react differently in treating malaria. As a medicinal herb, cinchona bark is also known as Jesuit's bark or Peruvian bark.....The garden was established in 1861 with the auspices of Mr G.H.W. Thawaites then director of Royal Botanic Gardens at Peradeniya and M.R. W. MacNichholl was the pioneer curator of the gardens
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