vegetable-fruit

Updated: May 23, 2025

They planted patches of mandioc, maize, sugarcane, rice, beans, squashes, pineapples, bananas, lemons, oranges, melons, peppers; and various purely native fruits and vegetables, such as the kniabo a vegetable-fruit growing on the branches of a high bush which is cooked with meat. They get some game from the forest, and more fish from the river.

Theodore Roosevelt - Through the Brazilian Wilderness