USDA Plant Hunters Bring 'Em Back Alive and Growing
Somewhere up a tributary of the Amazon River on a 30-by 12-foot barge with 14 people aboard, 1947:
About 5 AM there was jolt and a loud crashing and splitting of wood. The barge has run into a leaning tree along the river's edge and the already badly damaged cabin was smashed. With my flashlight, I saw that the tree was in young fruit, with a recently fertilized ovary that is, so I broke off a few branches.... When dawn came, I ...