“Look, ‘Red Pearl’ is the smallest, ‘Rosada’ is sweet with delicate rosy skin, and ‘Lisa’ is light and refreshing.” Hearing this, one might think one is at a beauty pageant, but when such words come from the plant breeding staff at Known-You Seed Company, it’s tomatoes they are talking about.
In the foothills of Yushan, Taiwan’s tallest peak, lies the home of the Tsou Indigenous people. In their mythology, the Tsou were created by their deity Hamo. Later the world was flooded and they fled to Yushan, waiting for the waters to recede. The deity then left his footprints in the mountain forests, and the Tsou followed them to take up residence there, with the first footprint becoming Tfuya.
