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It is with a bunch of
African palm oil that we start to make our trip around the first half of
the table which we call the "Tropical Fruit See, Smell, Taste, and
Touch Experience". You will see many new fruits and
flowers such as ornamental bananas, smell flowers such as
ylang-ylang which is used in France to make the perfume Channel #5,
taste the mamey which tastes like pumpkin pie, and touch like
the soft skin of the velvet apple. After the fruit experience we
take a short walk through part of the garden to where African oil palms
are growing and the workers will show you how the bunches of palm oil are
harvested from the tall palms. After this short break we return to the
table to see the tropical plants which are used to make the many different
remedies. Most of the remedies are remedies which are often used by the
local older population. Many remedies which have been passed down for
generations are now not being used by the younger people and many are
being lost. Most remedies are quite simple to make and many people find
some of then are very helpful. After the table we will take you
through the garden where you will see many tropical plants, fruits, and
flowers; such as, bananas, heliconias, gingers, palms, bamboos, crotons,
calatheas, ixoras, aralias, cordylines, exotic fruits, medicinal plants,
etc. The paths through the garden are wide and clean and the plants
are well marked; that is, (1) With the common English name, (2) the
botanical name, (3) the common Spanish name. |
