FINDINGS IN NATURE April 2020
One of the pleasures of shopping and eating in México is enjoying the availability of Mexican dishes that are either not found or seldom seen at home in Canada and in many parts of the United States. Tacos, enchiladas, flautas, chile rellenos, camarones de coco and molcajetes are among the dishes commonly served at Mexican eateries ranging from corner taco stands to elegant restaurants.
The Mexican Jelly Bean Plant is a bush that produces several huge pods of jelly beans which open when ripe to spill the beans for harvesting.
This large pod is in an early stage of ripening, just starting to drop the jelly beans that will be collected for processing and sale.
Always a special treat is finding something that is new to our
It is only recently that the plant has been cultivated and is
taste buds. Cuisine around the world offers endless variety in
now at the beginning of a new and unique cottage industry in
gastronomical exploration, and México is no exception. A de-
the Mexican state of Colima, the only place where the plant
lightful discovery for my wife, Linda, and me during our so-
has been successfully grown. The unique feature of the Jelly
journ in México to escape from Alberta’s winter was seeing
Bean Plant is that it grows ready-to-eat jelly beans, bright red
the Mexican Jelly Bean Plant, known by its scientific name of
in color and with a taste similar to Macintosh apples.
Mixtum diligenter floralibus.
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