Tasting my first surinam cherry (Eugenia uniflora)

November 21, 2013 marcos 2 Comments 4 tags

  I feel that It’s the “end” of a long journey that began when I had a space to garden and became interested in indigenous fruits for its ease of

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Worried about dry parts in the leaves of chamba (campomanesia lineatifolia)

July 11, 2013 marcos 0 Comments 2 tags

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Tasting the fruits of arazá! (Strawberry guava, Psidium cattleianum)

March 1, 2013 marcos 10 Comments 2 tags

Today I woke up in a good mood because I knew I would try the first fruit of the native plant called arazá in Latin America, and strawberry guava in

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Guava blooming for the first time (late in midsummer)

February 5, 2013 marcos 0 Comments 1 tag

jumping spider with its prey, a green bug on top of the guava Guava bud This guava is more than 2 meters tall and was the first that I planted

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Tasting guabiju (myrcianthes pungens)

January 4, 2013 marcos 0 Comments 0 tags

The Guaviyú (Myrcianthes pungens) is a South American fruit tree native to southern Brazil, northern Argentina and Uruguay, thrives well in wet subtropical weather supporting frost up to maybe -10

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