"fever tree" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1874, William Thomson, On Typhoid Fever, page 195:",
          "text": "To write of fever in the home of the far-famed “fever tree,” without adding a word upon its merits, would look like denying it honour in its own country; and to avoid that appearance of ingratitude, a leaf will now be gleaned from indigenous blue-gum literature.",
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          "ref": "1998, Stuart A. Altmann, “Dietary Diversity”, in Foraging for Survival: Yearling Baboons in Africa, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 76:",
          "text": "Virtually all the trees in the home range of the baboons are acacias of just two species: the fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea (18.4% of feeding bouts), and, on somewhat higher, drier ground, the umbrella tree, A. tortilis (5.0%).",
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          "ref": "1912, Rudyard Kipling, The Elephant's Child:",
          "text": "Goodbye. I am going to the great grey-green, greasy Limpopo River, all set about with fever-trees, to find out what the Crocodile has for dinner.",
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        "An acacia tree, Vachellia xanthophloea, native to eastern and southern Africa, with fragrant yellow flowers."
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          "sense": "Vachellia xanthophloea",
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          "word": "mũrera"
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        "The American flowering plant Pinckneya pubens."
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          "text": "Virtually all the trees in the home range of the baboons are acacias of just two species: the fever tree, Acacia xanthophloea (18.4% of feeding bouts), and, on somewhat higher, drier ground, the umbrella tree, A. tortilis (5.0%).",
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