Fruit trees and useful plants
in Amazonian life

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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Rome 2011

ABSTRACT

This book features the uncommon quality of bringing together original scientific knowledge on fruits and useful plants of the Amazon forest and the sensibility to detect the deep interaction between life, traditional knowledge of our forests and folk culture.
With its language at the same time accessible, pleasant and practical, the book has become a vehicle to disseminate information that is fundamental to the future of the Amazon and to bring alive the dream of a development model that is economically and socially fair, and that respects the environment.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Authors Contributors Authors and contributors: contact information Glossary of Portuguese and forestry terms Map of South America	[807kb]
Introduction Map of the Amazon Amazonian plant diversity Health and nutrition: compliments of the forest Compatible or conflicting use The impact of seven generations	[746kb]
Who will use this book and how? Who will use this book and how? How to play with this book How to educate with this book: a knowledge network	[753kb]
Trees and vines Andiroba (Carapa guianensis) Bacuri (Platonia insignis) Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa) Cat’s claw (Uncaria tomentosa and Uncaria guianensis) Copaíba (Copaifera spp.) Ipê–roxo, pau d’arco (Tabebuia impetiginosa) Jatobá (Hymenaea courbaril) Mahogany, mogno (Swietenia macrophylla) Piquiá (Caryocar villosum) Rubber tree, seringueira (Hevea brasiliensis) Titica (Heteropsis spp.) Uxi, uchi (Endopleura uchi)	[4.3Mb]
Palm trees and diverse other species Açaí (Euterpe oleracea) Açaí (solitary) (Euterpe precatoria) Buriti, moriche palm (Mauritia flexuosa) Inajá (Attalea maripa [syn: Maximiliana maripa]) Patauá (Oenocarpus bataua) Pupunha, peach palm (Bactris gasipaes) Tucumã of Amazonas (Astrocaryum aculeatum [syn: A. tucuma]) Diverse other species	[2.6Mb]
Forests for the people Conflicting uses: diverse perspectives of forest value Multiple-use management HForest culture	[2.2Mb]
Bibliography Subject themes Appendix A: Trees and palms with a complete chapter Appendix B: Other trees and palms mentioned in this    book Appendix C: Wild animals mentioned in this book Index	[1.1Mb]

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