[nsenifty]

Heh, I grew up in a small town in Southern India. One of the summertime activities for kids was to go shake these trees (they are everywhere), extract kernels and make a few bucks at the local markets.

They were quite bitter. And the bitterness transferred to anything you touch after handling them unless you wash your hands thoroughly. IIRC, the oil was used in the soap industry.

Having said that, isn't any kind of monoculture bad? Traditional farming always had crop rotation and/or mixed cultivation. Any "magical" and "hardy" crop is gonna ruin the soil if planted over and over for years.

[coryrc]

> isn't any kind of monoculture bad

Hence the previous destruction of citrus...

[NoRagrets]

What is it called in Tamil?

[nsenifty]

Kannada.

It is called "Honge mara" in Kannada.