The Iberian fruit trees of the Argentine subtropics (1493-1767)

Citrus seeds taken on at Gomera on Columbus's second voyage, and peaches brought from Chile by Nunez de Prado in the 1550s, became naturalised populations that Andean and Guarani communities took over and put to medical uses no European pharmacopoeia had recorded. The Jesuit missions grew oranges in the communal Tupambae until the expulsion of 1767 inventoried them. The peaches of the Quebrada are now named as a marker of local identity.