What trees are native to Brazil/South america?

Question

Im doing a landscape design project on Roberto Burle Marx and i need to fiind out a few native trees to brazil.. If u could help i would be very thankful!

Answer 1

Brazil nut trees - Bertholletia excelsa

Ipe – called the Brazilian Walnut - Tabebuia species

Cocoa bean trees - (Theobroma cacao) The small under-story cocoa bean trees are from the rainforests of the Amazon basin and Central America along with their relative Theobroma grandiflorum

Brazilian Cherry – Jatoba (Hymenaea courbaril)

Brazilian rosewood (Aniba rosaeodora)

Brazilwood (Caesalpinia echinata)

Brazil's Rubber tree (Hevea brazilensis)

Balsa trees (Ochroma pyramidale) are native from southern Brazil and Bolivia north to southern Mexico

Brazilian mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla)

Understory jaborandi trees are native to Northern Brazil: Pilocarpus jaborandi, and P. microphyllus

Tonka Bean - Dipteryx odorata

Baru tree (Dipteryx alata) grows in the Cerrado, Brazil's savanna as well as Casearia grandiflora & tulip wood trees (Physocalymma scaberrimum).

Quinine is from the bark of Cinchona officinalis & Cinchona pubescens , Cinchona ledgeriana, trees that grow in the Andes and Amazon highlands.





Palms native in Brazil’s Amazon valley-

Tucum (Astrocaryum aculeatum),

Pupunha or Peach Palm (Bactris gasipaes),

Patauá palm (Oenocarpus bataua),

Babassu palm (Orbignya phalerata)



Coffee beans come from several related plants from the Coffea genus. Some come from Africa and Madagascar while others are native to the Mascarene islands in the Indian Ocean but all are introduced to South America, not native.

Answer 2

Trees In Brazil

Answer 3

When you are talking about plant life in the Amazon/South American region the first thing that I think of is tropical rainforest. Off the top of my head I would guess that there are certain Brazillian coffee and nut trees that can be found in that region. One specific that comes to mind is the abiu (Pouteria caimito) tree which is found in the Amazon.



There are certainly tropical rainforest canopy could be considered native to this part of the world. In the Amazon specifically we see lowland equatorial evergreen rain forests as there is a high amount of rainfall in this region and it is near the equator.

Answer 4

Pines are an ancient species and native to everywhere, including Australia. FYI, cedar, fir and spruce are technically also pine.

Answer 5

Yes.