For Canberra's gardeners who enjoy experimenting with unusual plants, we have discovered a cold climate surprise. Mark O'Connor has found a way to get the babaco (Carica pentagona) to fruit in his ...

Babaco can be eaten whole or skinned, raw or cooked. It is liquidised to make a drink or ice cream, or skinned and mixed into salads and pie fillings.

Scientists in Ecuador have developed a new method to detect and diagnose a virus that devastates crops of babaco, a fruit plant of economic importance to local farmers. The team, at Universidad San ...