Golden tejocote: Praise to a humble Day of the Dead fruit
A clutch of tejocotes (te-ho-COT-es) with a plum tomato by their side to give you a sense of scale. They look like minature golden apples, don’t they? Doll’s apples. So…
Read moreSmut fungi. More on huitlacoche from The Scientist Gardener
A series of devastating wheat smut outbreaks caused hundreds of combine fires [at the end of the nineteenth century] as the vehicles stirred up massive clouds of oily smut spores,…
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