Plant Catalog · Sintropia

century plant

Agave americana

Pivotal species of the accumulation phase on exhausted soils. Rebello describes its use in Chapada dos Veadeiros: planted at 20 cm spacing on near-...

jack bean

Canavalia ensiformis

Placenta I Low Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

Annual nitrogen-fixing legume with strong soil-decompacting and weed-suppressing ability. Explicitly cited by Pasini among Accumulation-system spec...

vetiver

Chrysopogon zizanioides

Placenta II Low Mulch biomass

Perennial grass with deep vertical roots (up to 4 m), originally from India. The Bosque de Niebla Guidebook recommends vetiver as a hedgerow specie...

common chicory

Cichorium intybus

Placenta I Medium No biomass production

Bitter perennial leafy green with deep taproots — an excellent soil decompactor. Pasini lists it in the medium stratum of Tabela 3. Leaves used in ...

sunn hemp

Crotalaria juncea

Placenta I High Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

Annual green-manure legume, fixes up to ~450 kg N/ha, ideal for the Placenta I phase. Breaks nematode cycles and contributes large amounts of ferti...

guadua

Guadua angustifolia

Secondary I Emergent Mulch biomass

A woody clumping bamboo native to Central and South America, regarded as the finest structural bamboo of the Americas. It forms straight, strong cu...

velvet bean

Mucuna pruriens

Placenta I Low Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

Annual climbing legume that fixes nitrogen (~180–220 kg N/ha) and produces dense cover biomass. Suppresses weeds, decompacts the soil, and is one o...

radish

Raphanus sativus

Placenta I Ground cover No biomass production

Ultra-short-cycle brassica (25–35 days). Pasini lists it in the medium stratum of Tabela 3 (grown as a low-stratum species). Excellent for rotating...

fodder radish

Raphanus sativus var. oleiferus

Placenta I Low Fertilizer biomass

Specific Raphanus cultivar for green manure. Pasini lists it in the medium stratum of Tabela 3. Taproot breaks through compacted layers; sulfur- an...