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Who has ever seen the puna? An enormous and infinite cold desert. No trees, no flowers, only small clumps of dried grasses. A blue cold that takes your breath away, some puddles of stagnant water, an inert silence. At night, when the temperature falls well below zero, the twinkling of the stars is transformed into a cascade of light “Puna brava, Puna dura”, say the Peruvians. A desert of absolute cold surrounded by snow-covered peaks, a few huts with stone walls and thatched roofs and a gelid cold that penetrates right into your bones. The sun is there, immobile and distant at the same time, indifferent and sluggish in an absence of heat. It is in this hostile and distant environment that the small potato of the Andes grows, the secret of the ancient Inca, the Maca. Scientists call it Lepidium meyenii: actually not all of them, but the majority now agree that this is the real scientific name.

Palabras clave: Lepidium meyenii puna.

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Vol. 2 Núm.3. Mayo 2003 Pags. 30-36 BLACPMA 2003; 2(3)