Jicama and eggplant, winged bean and peanut, String bean, lima bean, hyacinth bean, Winter melon, sponge gourd, wax gourd and winter squash, And there is also radish, mustard, Onion, tomato, garlic, and ginger! And all around are sesame seeds. The botanists in Manila who told me about this song chuckled as they wrote down the lyrics. Every single one of these age-old traditional garden plants, they said, is in fact an introduced species, native to Africa, the Americas, or East Asia.
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