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Episode: Ancient tree from India may replace petroleum, company hopes
Description: An ancient tree from India is now thriving in groves where citrus trees once flourished in Florida, and could help provide the nation with renewable energy.
As large parts of the Sunshine State’s once-famous citrus industry have all but dried up over the past couple of decades due to two fatal diseases, greening, and citrus canker, some farmers are turning to the pongamia tree, a climate-resilient tree with the potential to produce plant-based proteins and a sustainable biofuel.
For years, pongamia has been used for shade trees, producing legumes—little brown beans—that are so bitter wild hogs won't even e...