Plant Catalog · Sintropia

leucaena

Leucaena leucocephala

Secondary I High Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

Fast-growing nitrogen-fixing tree legume with strong coppicing ability. Cited by Pasini as a tree-form fertilizer biomass species — sources fertili...

Brazilian ironwood

Libidibia ferrea

Secondary II High Fertilizer & mulch

Leguminous tree occurring in Caatinga, Cerrado and Atlantic Forest. Sun-tolerant and melliferous.

acerola

Malpighia emarginata

Secondary I High No biomass production

Small fruit shrub; fruits exceptionally rich in vitamin C. Pasini lists it in the high stratum of Tabela 3 and cites it among Abundance-system spec...

haden mango

Mangifera indica

Secondary II High No biomass production

Florida heirloom (1910), pioneer of the modern mango era. Large tree (10–12 m), predominantly yellow oval fruit with pink blush, 350–680 g, low fib...

tommy atkins mango

Mangifera indica

Secondary II High No biomass production

Dominant cultivar in Brazil's mango export trade (~90% of volume). Origin: Florida (1922). Vigorous tree (10–14 m unpruned), dense rounded canopy. ...

coquinho mango

Mangifera indica

Secondary II High No biomass production

Medium-sized cultivar (6–9 m), branched canopy. Small round fruit (120–150 g), light yellow-green skin, fibrous flesh with good flavor. Highly prod...

palmer mango

Mangifera indica

Secondary II High No biomass production

Semi-dwarf cultivar from Florida (1945). Open canopy, 6–8 m. Elongated fruit, 600–800 g, firm yellow flesh, 21.6° Brix, almost fiber-free. Late rip...

rosa mango

Mangifera indica

Secondary II High No biomass production

Traditional Brazilian cultivar with medium tree (8–10 m). Yellow-to-pink fruit (350 g), golden-yellow flesh of excellent flavor (21.8° Brix), low f...

espada mango

Mangifera indica

Secondary II Emergent Mulch biomass

Brazil's oldest mango cultivar. Vigorous tall tree (12–15 m), green-to-yellow fruit with fibrous flesh (300 g, 18° Brix). Today used more as rootst...

mango

Mangifera indica

Secondary II High No biomass production

Long-lived tropical fruit tree. Pasini lists it in the high stratum of Tabela 3 and in the '20 to 50 years' phase of Tabela 4 (high stratum). A key...

cassava

Manihot esculenta

Placenta II High Mulch biomass

Placenta II tuber crop widely cultivated across Amazonia and Brazil. Pasini lists it in the high stratum of Tabela 3 and as a species of the '1 to ...

bitter cassava

Manihot esculenta

Placenta II Low Fertilizer biomass

Cultivar group of Manihot esculenta with high cyanogenic glycoside content (>100 mg HCN/kg fresh root). Unsafe for direct consumption — requires ro...

Ceará rubber tree

Manihot glaziovii

Placenta II Medium

Shrub/small tree native to the Caatinga; one of the first species to flush leaves at the start of the rainy season. Leaves and twigs are used as ru...

sabia tree

Mimosa caesalpiniifolia

Secondary I Medium Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

Native legume of the Caatinga and northeastern Atlantic Forest. Medium tree (4–10 m), sparse spiny canopy. Nitrogen-fixer — central in degraded-soi...

jurema preta

Mimosa tenuiflora

Secondary I Medium Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

Native legume of the Caatinga and Atlantic Forest. Small-to-medium tree (4–8 m), fine leaves, fissured grey bark. Nitrogen-fixer, rapid recolonizer...

noni

Morinda citrifolia

Secondary I Medium No biomass production

Tropical small tree (3–6 m) introduced in Brazil. Large dark-green leaves, ovoid yellowish-white strong-smelling ripe fruits. Medicinal pulp — supp...

moringa

Moringa oleifera

Secondary I High Fertilizer biomass

Multi-purpose, extremely fast-growing Indo-African tree. The Bosque de Niebla Guidebook lists moringa among anchor species of the high stratum / Se...

pacovan banana

Musa × paradisiaca

Placenta II High Mulch biomass

AAB tall cultivar (5–6 m), large bunch (20–30 kg). Major Northeastern variety with better Yellow Sigatoka tolerance than Prata. Together with Prata...

plantain

Musa × paradisiaca

Placenta II High Mulch biomass

AAB Plantain subgroup — cooking banana, tall to emergent (5–7 m), bunch 15–25 kg with few large starchy fingers. Staple food across Northern and No...

dwarf pome banana

Musa × paradisiaca

Placenta II High Mulch biomass

Dwarf mutation of Prata (AAB), 2.5–3.5 m. Together with Prata and Pacovan accounts for ~60% of Brazilian banana area. Per Embrapa, a 'watershed' cu...

pome banana

Musa × paradisiaca

Placenta II High Mulch biomass

AAB Pome subgroup, tall (5–7 m), bunch 12–18 kg. Slightly tart flavor prized in the Brazilian domestic market. Before Prata-Anã it dominated the so...

urundeuva

Myracrodruon urundeuva

Climax High

Tree with extremely dense, durable hardwood; once dominant in the Caatinga but now threatened by overexploitation. Occurs in Caatinga, Cerrado and ...

spineless cactus

Opuntia ficus-indica

Placenta II Low

Introduced cactus widely cultivated in the Brazilian semiarid as strategic fodder reserve. CAM metabolism gives extremely high water-use efficiency...

Barbados gooseberry

Pereskia aculeata

Placenta II Medium No biomass production

An atypical cactus with broad, non-succulent leaves and a spiny scrambling, shrubby habit, native to the Americas and common in southeastern and no...