Bill Whitman, the only person to have coaxed a mangosteen tree into bearing fruit outdoors in the continental US

Bill Whitman replaced the sand around his house in Miami Beach with 300 truckloads of soil.

References:

Bill Whitman, 92, Is Dead; Scoured the Earth for Rare Fruit. NYTimes, 2007 http://buff.ly/2duKMyD

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