Quiz Question: October 4, 2011

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  1. Delly

    Delly In Flower

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    When you visit a pharmacist, one in every four purchases will have come from a ______________ forest.
     
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    Rain Forest ???
     
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    eileen Resident Taxonomist Staff Member Moderator Plants Contributor

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    When you visit a pharmacist, one in every four purchases will have come from a tropical forest.
     
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    Jerry Sullivan Garden Experimenter Plants Contributor

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    Handed down from generation to generation native healers from the tropics have used the plants found in their tropical forests to address the ills and afflictions of their people. As the world encroached on these indigenous populations the wonders of native medicine and their sources became a warehouse for the pharmaceutical industry. Time is running out however, for these populations and the sources of their medicines as the forests are cleared for cattle ranches and farmland.

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