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Rare farm where Adam’s apple grows

Eden’s apple growing wild at Munglu Echo farm. [Photo: Joe Ombuor/Standard]

Wonders abound side by side with natural beauty in pristine forests. Such is the case in the 150-acre Munglu Echo farm and Conservancy close to Homa Bay town where occasional explosives send visitors diving for safety, only to realise there’s no terror in the nature saturated vicinity.

The ear-splitting explosives that can be mistaken for bombs emanate from seeds of a shrub known in the local Dholuo dialect as ombasa (tylosema fassoglense.

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