Down a dusty farm track in Chilean wine country, behind a wooden gate wrapped in chains, forestry experts are nursing a plantation of saplings whose bark holds the promise of potent vaccines.

CASABLANCA, Chile, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Down a dusty farm track in Chilean wine country, behind a wooden gate wrapped in chains, forestry experts are nursing a plantation of saplings whose bark holds ...

10/03/2020 October 3, 2020. The quillaja tree, which grows in the Chilean Andes, has traditionally been used by the Mapuche to treat colds and inflammation. But it could play a significant role in ...

CAPE TOWN - The rare soapbark tree found in Chile has been found to produce important compounds that could boost the body's reaction vaccines possibly assisting the efficacy of the Covid-19 vaccine.

Chilean environmental scientist Jonathan Barichivich has been making waves in the dendrochronology community of late due to his study and findings regarding an alerce tree in Alerce Costero ...

In the Garden. Q: After hearing you rave about your Chilean fire tree in a lecture a few years ago I’ve tried growing two of them but both died. What do they require? A: The only sight more ...

THE Chilean flame tree is always a traffic-stopper, but more so than ever this year. Like every other spring and early summer flowering tree, it has put on... Friday, 4 July 2025.

The Chilean Wine Palm ... But once beheaded, over 100 gallons of the sap may seep from the trunk of the now dying and topless tree and can be boiled down to syrup or fermented into wine.

Down a dusty farm track in Chilean wine country, behind a wooden gate wrapped in chains, forestry experts are nursing a plantation of saplings whose bark holds the promise of potent vaccines.

In the past, the tree was used to make a highly successful vaccine against shingles and the world’s first malaria vaccine. ... A Chilean tree holds hope for new vaccines — if supplies last ...

Ricardo San Martin, a Chilean expert on the quillay soapbark tree and its industrial uses, checks on the growth of year-old soapbark trees at the University of California in Berkeley in August.