Height: up to 35 metres
Diameter: from 40 to 60 cm
Fruit: Crusched pod
Known for the good quality of its wood, it is subject to heavy cutting. It is, however, a very suitable plant for forest regeneration projects because of its rapid development and can also be used for its soil stabilization capacity, avoiding erosive phenomena. It is also used in parks for ornamental purposes thanks to its beautiful appearance.
Height: up to 35 metres
Diameter: from 40 to 60 cm
Fruit: Crusched pod
Known for the good quality of the wood obtained from cutting, it is unfortunately subject to strong cutting actions. It is a useful plant in forest regeneration projects where there is a lack of solar coverage, in fact thanks to its fast development and high leaf coverage it is a source of shade for smaller and more demanding plants.
Height: up to 50 metres
Diameter: 70 cm
Foliage/Fruit: Crusched pod and paripinnate leaves
It is commonly used in ecological and forestry restore processes as a pioneer species thanks to its robustness, which makes it highly resistant to adverse weather conditions.
Height: up to 18 metres
Foliage/Fruit: Leaves eglandular and pods fruits
Cedar is used to produce valuable wooden artefacts, thanks to high quality wood. It is also widely used in agroforestry systems and ecological restoration projects as a pioneer species.
Height: from 10 to 30 metres
Diameter: up tp 2 metres
Foliage: leaves are very long, up to 80cm
For those populations that live in synergy with the forest, cocoa production is one of the main sources of sustenance.
A cultural, economic and ecological resource, with specific growth requirements (shade and high levels of humidity), this species is one of the most interesting in terms of agro-forestry development activity.
Height: From 4 to 8 metres on average
Foliage: Oval, alternate, with a wavy edge and glossy top
Fruit: Egg-shaped and deep red when ripe, length from 15 to 30 cm and weighing between 300 and 500 g; each one can contain from 20 to 60 cocoa beans.
Locally it is known as “tambor” and its wood, which is very light and easy to work with, is used by local communities for making drums.
Height: From 30 to 40 metres
Diameter: Up to 80 cm
Foliage: Over a metre long, paripinnate with 30/50 pairs per stem
In addition to its ornamental characteristics, it is often used in agroforestry projects, where it takes on the role of “shade tree” for more delicate species, such as cocoa. Alkaloids, used in traditional medicine, are extracted from its fruits.
Height: from 10 to 25 metres
Diameter: up to 60 cm
Foliage/Fruit: fruits are legume pods reach to 20cm. Leaves alternate, trifoliolate up to 25cm long.
Due to its particular features and its shrub-like nature, coffee plants prefer shade and humidity typical of forests, which makes it a great partner for all sustainable agro-reforestation work.
Height: On average from 3 to 4 metres
Foliage: Oval with ruffled edges and variable length depending on the species (as long as 30 cm)
Fruit: Red berries, each containing two seeds or coffee beans.
Pavito is a plant of extreme interest to native populations who extract active ingredients useful for traditional medicine (the leaves are used to treat fevers, infections, and irritations, for example). In forest requalification plans, it is interesting for its speed of growth, for the persistent leaf cover, capable of giving protection to the most sensitive plants. Pavito has a small diameter, in fact it finds it place in associations with other tree species, without conflict with other species.
Height: up to 35 metres
Diameter: from 60 to 90 cm
Foliage: evergreen leaves
Guaycan Amarillo is a very important plant in soil moisture management, it is in fact associated with more demanding species at water levels, thus allowing a more balanced and heterogeneous development.
Height: up to 12 metres
Diameter: up to 50 cm
Fruit: Opposite Pinnate leaves
This plant is very elastic to soil and climate conditions and for this reason it is used both as ornament in parks and during the reforestation projects. Flowering is usually associated with the driest periods of the year. It is an important species for reforestation plans as it can produce high quantities of seeds (about 45000 seeds per kg of fruit) with a strong propensity and efficiency to germination, which makes this tree species easy to replicate even in forest nurseries.
Height: up to 30 metres
Diameter: up to 100 cm
Fruit: the fruit are long and slender capsules that can measure up to 35 cm
Height: From 3 to 15 metres, depending on species
Foliage: Paripinnate and evergreen
Fruit: Legumes
Avocado has long been eaten by native populations, and it is an important species not just from an ecological viewpoint but also as a primary resource for the local economy.
Height: up to 20 metres
Foliage: Oval, between 12 and 25 cm in length
Fruit: Egg-shaped, from 4 to 12 cm in length