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Archive Home > 2008 > October > 03 > Voodoo plant shows promise as fuel source

Voodoo plant shows promise as fuel source

By Jacqueline Charles / The Bulletin
October 3, 2008

MIAMI — For generations, Voodoo practitioners in rural Haiti have sworn by the mystic qualities of Jatropha, an indigenous plant believed to purge evil spirits and release the trapped souls of the dead.

But the shrub may soon be in bigger demand among the living. Jatropha shows....

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