Lost Crops of the Incas Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989) / Chapter Skim
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In Colombia, the more de Castilla has become an increasingly important cash crop. During recent years, its cultivation has increased because ~ By accepted definition it is a blackberry because, when picked, the floral receptacle detaches from the plant and remains on the fruit.
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This product might prove valuable for giving pallid juices (such as grapefruit) a rich ruby red color.
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Mora de Castilla is one of the Andean berries that is said to be superior in flavor and quality to most cultivated blackberries and raspberries. Its fruits are large (up to 3 cm long)
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Mora de Rocota. At the end of summer, peasants gather various wild berries, collectively called "zarzamoras," and sell them in practically all Andean markets.
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Mora Comun. Most of the berry fruits in the highlands of tropical America are produced by Rubus adenotrichus, the most common species from Mexico to Ecuador.
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Pink flowers and deep green foliage give it a handsome appearance. Its round berry is blue to nearly black, very glaucous (covered in a whitish bloom like grapes)
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They contain numerous, though hardly detectable, small seeds. Mortino fruits closely resemble the blueberries of the United States, and superior types could probably be developed into commercial crops for temperate climates and tropical highlands.
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In addition, researchers at the University of Concepcion, Chile, have developed techniques for large-scale production of selected types using tissue culture. The plant reportedly bears well on the coast of California, is commonly grown as an ornamental in the southern United States, and is also found in New Zealand.'4 PROSPECTS The Andes.
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Because of its vigor and the size and quality of its fruit, the more de Castilla, in particular, could prove an excellent subject for crossing with northern raspberries. In addition, the unusually large size of the Colombian berry is a valuable characteristic that might be combined, by means of hybridization, with cultivated raspberries.
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