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  • The region has native fruits like araticum, buriti, cagaita, ingá, jatobá, magaba, pitaya, pitomba and pequi that are eaten regionally but are often little known in the rest of Brazil.

    Chris McGowan: The Importance of Being Cerrado: Brazil's Other Huge, Endangered Ecosystem 2009

  • His series of massive cocoons, or Casulos, carved from felled pequi trees like the one here, will be on view at R 20th Century in New York from Oct. 6 to Nov. 5.

    NYT > Home Page By ALIX BROWNE 2011

  • His series of massive cocoons, or Casulos, carved from felled pequi trees like the one here, will be on view at R 20th Century in New York from Oct. 6 to Nov. 5.

    NYT > Home Page By ALIX BROWNE 2011

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