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Medicinal Uses of Tropical Trees

Selby Gardens is featured weekly on ABC7 News at Noon. Tune in Thursdays to see more informative segments like this one.

While many of the plants and trees here at Selby Gardens are admired for their beauty, in their native lands, many are also appreciated for their traditional, medicinal uses. Today, longtime Selby Gardens Member and Volunteer Hart Richardson, whose career as a pharmacist introduced him to many uses for plants, tells us about the tropical trees of the Gardens and how they’re used to treat ailments throughout the world.