Plant Catalog · Sintropia

mangium

Acacia mangium

Secondary I Emergent Fertilizer & mulch 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

Extremely fast-growing nitrogen-fixing legume, central in syntropic systems as a producer of both cover and fertilizer biomass. Pasini classifies i...

monjoleiro

Acacia polyphylla

Secondary I High Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

Pioneer legume native to the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado. Medium-to-tall tree (10–20 m), fine compound leaves. Very rapid growth — structural speci...

siris tree

Albizia lebbeck

Secondary II High Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

A fast-growing, drought-tolerant leguminous tree of 18-30 m, native to tropical Asia and now pantropical. It fixes nitrogen readily and coppices ex...

cebil

Anadenanthera colubrina

Secondary I High Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

Fast-growing pioneer legume, nitrogen fixer. Adapted to poor and degraded soils; widely used in restoration of degraded areas across Caatinga, Cerr...

atemoya

Annona × atemoya

Secondary I Medium No biomass production

Hybrid of sugar apple (A. squamosa) and cherimoya (A. cherimola), created in the US in the early 1900s and introduced to Brazil in the 1960s. Combi...

wild sweetsop

Annona cacans

Secondary II High Mulch biomass

Native Atlantic Forest and Cerrado species, medium tree (8–15 m). Large fruits (up to 1.5 kg) with sweetish yellow flesh but a laxative effect (ori...

cherimoya

Annona cherimola

Secondary I Medium No biomass production

Andean native (Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia). Small tree (5–8 m), deciduous leaves. Light-green reticulated fruit with creamy white flesh of delicate fla...

marolo

Annona crassiflora

Secondary I Medium

Native, endemic tree of the Brazilian Cerrado, reaching 6–8 m with a 2–4 m crown diameter. Fruits have high nutritional and bioactive value.

biriba

Annona mucosa

Secondary I High No biomass production

Amazonian fruit of the Annonaceae (cousin of pinha and graviola). Pasini lists it in the high stratum of Tabela 3. Creamy white pulp highly prized;...

soursop

Annona muricata

Secondary I High No biomass production

Tropical fruit with sweet-tart white pulp and well-documented medicinal properties. Pasini lists it in the high stratum of Tabela 3. Native to Amaz...

sugar apple

Annona squamosa

Secondary I High No biomass production

Small tropical fruit tree, same family as graviola. Pasini lists it in the high stratum of Tabela 3. Tolerates poor soils and drought; traditional ...

bilimbi

Averrhoa bilimbi

Secondary I Medium No biomass production

Small tropical tree (5–10 m), close relative of carambola (Averrhoa carambola, already in canon). Small green cylindrical very acidic fruits — used...

neem

Azadirachta indica

Secondary I High Mulch biomass

Indian-origin tree adapted to Brazil, the biopesticide species of the Embrapa Vitrine SAF. Leaves and seed oil (azadirachtin) repel more than 200 i...

balcooa bamboo

Bambusa balcooa

Secondary I Emergent Mulch biomass

A large clumping bamboo native to the Indian subcontinent and Indochina, with thick culms up to 25 m and thick walls. It is highly valued for const...

punting pole bamboo

Bambusa tuldoides

Secondary I High Mulch biomass

A clumping bamboo native to southern China, with straight, relatively slender culms 6–12 m tall, widely used as poles, in light construction and cr...

common bamboo

Bambusa vulgaris

Secondary I High Mulch biomass

A clumping (non-running) bamboo native to Southeast Asia and one of the most widely cultivated bamboos in the tropics. It forms dense clumps with c...

annatto

Bixa orellana

Secondary I Medium No biomass production

Tropical American native dye-producing shrub. Pasini lists it in the medium stratum of Tabela 3 and in the 3–10 year phase of Tabela 4. Seeds yield...

silk floss tree

Ceiba speciosa

Secondary I Emergent

Deciduous Atlantic Forest tree reaching 15–30 m with a crown up to 20 m wide. Fast growth (~6 m in 2–3 years). Trunk often armed with conical spines.

Persian lime

Citrus × latifolia

Secondary I Medium No biomass production

Medium-stratum citrus in syntropic systems. Pasini cites 'lemon' as a stratification example next to coffee (low), avocado (high), and eucalyptus (...

fairchild's clitoria

Clitoria fairchildiana

Secondary I High Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

A leguminous tree native to Brazil (Amazonian domain), 6-12 m tall, with a broad crown and violet flowers in pendulous inflorescences. It nodulates...

woolly plectranthus

Coleus barbatus

Secondary I Medium No biomass production

A perennial semi-succulent subshrub of the Lamiaceae family, native to tropical Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Asia, widely grown in Brazil as b...

quince

Cydonia oblonga

Secondary I Medium No biomass production

Quince, a small deciduous fruit tree of the Rosaceae family, exotic to Brazil and suited to temperate-climate regions. It needs a cool period (temp...

giant bamboo

Dendrocalamus asper

Secondary I Emergent Mulch biomass

One of the most economically important giant bamboos, a clumping species native to Southeast Asia, with culms 15–20 m tall and up to 20 cm in diame...

giant bamboo

Dendrocalamus giganteus

Secondary I Emergent Mulch biomass

One of the largest bamboos in the world, a clumping species native to India, Myanmar, Thailand and southern China, with culms commonly reaching 30 ...