“Aureliano led me into the garden behind his home with a machete in hand, whacking weeds, pruning trees, and chasing away vermin. The garden had dozens of fruit trees,” she said, clicking through images of banana, lemon, and orange trees. “But then he showed me these wildly exotic fruits.” There was the marañón, a red-orange fruit five times richer in vitamin C than oranges; anona, which looks like a misshapen, thick-skinned pear known to have selective toxicity against various types of cancer cells; and wild ginger, a great source of vitamin B6, magnesium, and manganese. “All of these are
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