Plant Catalog

Woody vine native to southern China. Cultivated above 600 m altitude in southern and southeastern Brazil (RS, SC, PR, MG, SP). Requires chill hours...

cherimoya

Annona cherimola

Climax Emergent Mulch biomass

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

paraná pine

Araucaria angustifolia

Conifer native to southern Brazil, an iconic emergent of highland Atlantic Forest. Rebello cites it among emergent-stratum representatives in clima...

peroba rosa

Aspidosperma polyneuron

Climax High

Atlantic Forest climax tree with very slow growth and dense, prized timber. Reaches 20–30 m. IUCN-listed as threatened due to logging.

carqueja

Baccharis trimera

Placenta II Low No biomass production

A perennial subshrub of the Asteraceae family, native to southern, southeastern and central-western Brazil and neighboring parts of South America, ...

jelly palm

Butia odorata

Climax Medium No biomass production

Native palm of the Pampa and southern grasslands. 4–8 m, leaf-base covered trunk. Orange-yellow fruits with fibrous sweet-tart flesh — basis of jel...

cambuci

Campomanesia phaea

Native fruit endemic to the São Paulo Atlantic Forest, threatened with extinction. Pasini lists it in the medium stratum of Tabela 3. Aromatic gree...

jequitibá

Cariniana legalis

Climax Emergent

Emergent giant of the Atlantic Forest; climax species forming the uppermost canopy stratum of dense ombrophilous forest. Can exceed 60 m at maturit...

pecan

Carya illinoinensis

Pecan, a large deciduous tree of the Juglandaceae family, native to North America and successfully grown in southern Brazil, especially Rio Grande ...

sweet chestnut

Castanea sativa

European sweet chestnut, a large deciduous tree of the Fagaceae family, exotic to Brazil and suited to cold temperate regions of the south. It tole...

geisha coffee

Coffea arabica

Heirloom arabica from the Gesha valley in Ethiopia, rediscovered in Panama in the 2000s. Tall, open canopy, low yield but exceptional floral cup pr...

quince

Cydonia oblonga

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...

persimmon

Diospyros kaki

Asian subtropical fruit tree, popular in southern and southeastern Brazil. EcoAgri lists it in the high stratum of the 'up to 50 years' bin. Tolera...

loquat

Eriobotrya japonica

Secondary I Medium Fertilizer biomass 🌱 Nitrogen fixer

Asian fruit tree naturalized in highland regions of Brazil. EcoAgri lists it in the high stratum of the 'up to 50 years' bin. Flowers in winter, fr...

cockspur coral tree

Erythrina crista-galli

A deciduous, sun-loving leguminous small tree or tree up to 10-15 m, native to southern Brazil and the rest of southern South America. It inhabits ...

uvaia

Eugenia pyriformis

Climax High No biomass production

Atlantic Forest native, listed by Pasini in the medium stratum of Tabela 3. Aromatic yellow fruit similar to a small guava. Tolerant of subtropical...

juçara palm

Euterpe edulis

Atlantic Forest native palm with long-cycle climax behavior; high-quality palm heart. Endangered under extractivism, abundant in well-managed syntr...

fig

Ficus carica

Placenta I Low No biomass production

Mediterranean fruit tree naturalized in Brazil. EcoAgri marks it as an edge species in the '> 50 years' bin (small habit, needs full sun). High str...

fennel

Foeniculum vulgare

Perennial Mediterranean herb (1–2 m), feathery anise-scented leaves. Seeds used as seasoning and medicinal. Bulb of the sweet variety is a vegetabl...

strawberry

Fragaria × ananassa

Placenta I Ground cover No biomass production

Perennial herbaceous ground-runner cultivated as annual or biennial. Productive ground cover in vegetable gardens and syntropic systems. Mild cold ...

taquarucu bamboo

Guadua tagoara

Secondary I High Mulch biomass

A bamboo native to the Atlantic Forest, distributed from Santa Catarina to Bahia, where it forms the characteristic bamboo thickets. It can reach a...

yellow lapacho

Handroanthus chrysotrichus

Climax High No biomass production

Medium-tall tree of the southern and southeastern Atlantic Forest (8–15 m). Vivid golden-yellow flowering in August–September, denser than the cerr...

yerba mate

Ilex paraguariensis

Tree native to highland Atlantic Forest and southern Brazilian grasslands, listed by IPOEMA among major Brazilian perennial crops in agroforestry c...

bay laurel

Laurus nobilis