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№ 056TreesBreadfruit and Jackfruit: Giant Fruits of the Fig Family
Two Artocarpus trees that feed the tropics with starchy multiple-fruits — one that carried Captain Bligh to mutiny, one that grows the largest fruit borne by any tree.
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№ 404TreesSago Palm: The Tree You Eat by Cutting It Down
A swamp palm that stores a lifetime's worth of starch in its trunk to fuel one giant final flowering — starch that feeds much of lowland New Guinea and the Moluccas, harvested by felling the tree at the one right moment.
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