Sowing Water
BrazilOur project aims to reverse forest suppression by encouraging rural producers to adopt sustainable land-use practices and restore degraded forests. Focused on eight municipalities within the Cantareira Supply System, the project also engages the community through environmental education, promoting active involvement in conservation efforts.
Fast growing and soil fertilizing species
These trees are strong and easy to grow. Commonly planted in large quantities, they build the base of a plantation system.
Moquiniastrum polymorphum
Cambará
Croton urucurana
Sangra-d'água
Croton floribundus
Capixingui
Heliocarpus popayanensis
Pau-jangada
Luehea divaricata
Açoita-cavalo
Cecropia hololeuca
Embaúba-prateada
Euterpe edulis
Juçara
Trema micrantha
Pau-pólvora
Machaerium nyctitans
Jacarandá-bico-de-pato
Peltophorum dubium
Canafístula
Alchornea triplinervia
Tapia
Piptadenia gonoacantha
Pau-jacaré
Colubrina glandulosa
Saguaraji
Cecropia glaziovii
Embaúba-vermelha
Erythrina speciosa
Suinã
Guarea guidonia
Marinheiro
Schinus terebinthifolius
Aroeira-pimenteira
Lafoensia pacari
Dedaleiro
Senna multijuga
Pau-cigarra
Myrsine coriacea
Capororoca-ferrugem
Prunus myrtifolia
Pessegueiro-bravo
Bauhinia forficata
Pata-de-vaca
Alchornea glandulosa
Tapiá
Aegiphila integrifolia
Tamanqueira
Gallesia integrifolia
Pau-d'alho
Erythrina crista-galli
Corticeira
Guazuma ulmifolia
Mutambo
Tapirira guianensis
Pombeiro
Anadenanthera colubrina
Angico
Enterolobium contortisiliquum
Tamboril
Fruit and medicinal species
These trees produce the most delicious fruits or very useful ingredients for cosmetic and medicinal purposes.
Inga vera
Ingá
Eugenia pyriformis
Uvaia
Eugenia uniflora
Pitanga
Copaifera langsdorffii
Copaíba
Psidium rufum
Araçá-roxo
Inga edulis
Ingá-de-macaco
Inga laurina
Ingá-branco
Psidium myrtoides
Araça
Cordia ecalyculata
Café-de-bugre
Psidium cattleianum
Araça-rosa
Myrciaria glazioviana
Cabeludinha
Eugenia brasiliensis
Grumixama
Inga marginata
Ingá-feijão
Rare and magnificent species
Some trees impress by their sheer size or longevity, while others hold their particular beauty from their inner fight against the threats of extinction that loom upon them.
Hymenaea courbaril
Jatobá
Machaerium villosum
Jacarandá-paulista
Citharexylum myrianthum
Pau-viola
Paubrasilia echinata
Pau-Brasil
Cariniana estrellensis
Jequitibá-branco
Centrolobium tomentosum
Araribá
Vochysia tucanorum
Pau-de-tucano
Myroxylon peruiferum
Cabreúva
Cordia trichotoma
Louro-pardo
Dalbergia nigra
Jacarandá-da-Bahia
Nectandra megapotamica
Canelinha
Tabebuia roseoalba
Ipê-branco
Handroanthus chrysotrichus
Ipê-amarelo
Cedrela fissilis
Cedro
Araucaria angustifolia
Araucária
Ceiba speciosa
Paineira-rosa
Handroanthus impetiginosus
Ipê-roxo
Cariniana legalis
Jequitibá
Poecilanthe parviflora
Coração-de-negro
Machaerium aculeatum
Jacarandá-bico-de-pato
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