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Lost Crops of the Incas Little-Known Plants of the Andes with Promise for Worldwide Cultivation (1989) / Chapter Skim
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Lucuma
Pages 262-265

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From page 262...
... has recently been developed in Oregon (United States) .~5 |5 Information from Peace Seeds.
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From page 263...
... Fresh, undried lucuma pulp can also be frozen and stored safely for long periods. Besides feeding people, its fruits are said to make a good feed for chickens, promoting both growth and eggs with bright-yellow yolks.
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From page 264...
... However, it yields best in deep alluvial soils high in organic matter. Lucuma is highly variable in fruit size and quality, but has received little horticultural or botanical attention.2 Fruit quality seems highly dependent on seedling type, climate, and horticultural practice.
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... Export markets could develop in the United States, Japan, and other affluent societies looking for new flavors for dessert foods. Already, Chile is shipping lucuma to Switzerland, where the fruit is used to flavor ice cream.
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Key Terms

  • lucuma fruits
  • particularly iron
  • established named
  • organic matter
  • local popularity

  • little horticultural
  • societies looking
  • seedling type
  • types remain
  • moderate salinity

  • expanded home
  • feeding people
  • lucuma cultivars
  • scale outside
  • bright yellow

  • especially carotene
  • received little
  • types tried
  • calcareous soils
  • molina university

  • seasonal rains
  • production outside
  • fruit trees
  • latin america
  • increased commercial

  • costa rica
  • tolerates moderate
  • milk shakes
  • valuable types
  • occasional dryness


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