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Biblioteca(s): | Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental.
Data corrente: | 20/05/1999
Data da última atualização: | 19/11/2019
Autoria: | REISDORFF, C.
Título: | The cupuacu-tree Theobroma grandiflorum (Willd. ex Spreng.) Schum.: additional use option and agro-ecology.
Ano de publicação: | 1998
Fonte/Imprenta: | In: SHIFT PROJECT ENV 23 (Manaus-AM). Recuperacao de areas degradadas e abandonadas, atraves de sistemas de policultivo. Manaus: Embrapa Amazonia Ocidental, 1999. Relatorio Anual 1998.
Páginas: | p. 43-49.
Idioma: | Inglês
Conteúdo: | The cupuacu tree, Theobroma grandiflorum (Willd. ex Spreng.) Schum, is native in the terra-firme rain forest of south-east of Para, Brazil. Its big fruits (1kg-2kg fresh weight) consist of a lignified husk encasing 20-45 seeds which are surrounded by a very aromatic pulp. Nowadays the cupuacu tree can be found throughout the Amazon region on non inundated areas. The relatively high market value of the fruit pulp (2 - 4 U$$ per kg), which is used for the production of juice, ice-cream, yoghurts, and other fresh products, makes the cultivation of cupuacu-trees more attractive. Furthermore the close ralationship to the cocoa-tree (Theobroma cacao L.) give rise to the presumption that in addition to pulp production the seed of T. grandiflorum (ca. 20% of fresh weight) could be used for manufacturing chocolate-like foodstuffs. However, attempts to commercialize a type of chocolat-wares made from cupuacu-seeds failed so far, probably due to the unsatisfactory and hardly reproducible quality of the product.
Palavras-Chave: | Agrofloresta; Agronomic characters; Agrorestry; Amazonas; Brasil; Inoculation; Manaus; Mycorrizae.
Thesagro: | Características Agronômicas; Composição Química; Cupuaçu; Ecologia; Inoculação; Micorriza; Semente; Theobroma Grandiflorum.
Thesaurus Nal: | chemical composition; ecology; seeds.
Categoria do assunto: | --
Registro original: | Embrapa Amazônia Ocidental (CPAA)
Exemplares: | CPAA - (4034-1) - UMT - PL - PP - 634.99 - S555r - 1999.00129 - DIS