The Amazon rain forest is home to hundreds of exotic fruits, including aguaje. The small, highly nutritious fruit is central to diets and daily life in the rain forest. Ecologists say its popularity ...
Indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon are working to revive populations of the aguaje palm tree, commercially valued for its fruits, by shifting to more sustainable harvesting practices, ...
From the Peruvian swamps and wetlands comes an unusual fruit that plays a keystone role binding together animals, plants and people. Aguaje's brilliantly colored yellow flesh hides beneath purplish ...