Cassandra Quave

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Associate Professor of Dermatology and Human Health; Herbarium Curator, Emory University

The oleander plant is beautiful but deadly because of a toxic chemical called oleadrin. Alvesgaspar/Wikimedia Commons

August 18, 2020

Cassandra Quave, Emory University

Consuming the plant can be lethal to animals and humans.

A sample of cinchona bark. Kim Walker & Harriet Gendall. RBG Kew.

March 31, 2020

Kim Walker, Royal Holloway, University of London; Cassandra Quave, Emory University, and Nataly Olivia A Canales, University of Copenhagen

Cinchona bark, the flavouring in tonic water, is not a natural source of chloroquine.