Another activity of the Projeto Caatinga team is the transplanting of native species’ seedlings, produced in a trial testing the effect of different shading percentage (0, 30, 50, 70%) on these plants, to area to be recovered. This task aims to get parameters to recover degraded semiarid areas. The studied area is about 700 m². Nineteen plant species were introduced in the area (about 50 seedlings of each species). Seedlings were grouped by species. The project wants to understand aspects such as survival and growth rate of these plants in field.
Species used in this activity:
Common name |
Scientific name |
| Angico | Anadenanthera colubrina var. cebil (Griseb.) Altschul. |
| Aroeira | Myracrodruon urundeuva Allemão |
| Cumaru | Amburana cearensis (Allemão) A.C. Sm. |
| Ipê | Handroanthus impetiginosus (Mart.ex DC.) Mattos |
| Juá | Ziziphus joazeiro Mart. |
| Jucá | Libidibia ferrea (Mart. ex Tul.) L.P. Queiroz |
| Jurema Branca | Piptadenia stipulacea (Benth.) Ducke |
| Jurema de Embira | Mimosa ophthalmocentra Mart. ex Benth. |
| Jurema Preta | Mimosa tenuiflora (Willd.) Poir. |
| Mofumbo | Combretum leprosum Mart. |
| Mororó | Bauhinia cheilantha (Bong.) Steud. |
| Mutamba | Guazuma ulmifolia Lamarck |
| Pacotê | Cochlospermum vitifolium Spreng. |
| Pajeú | Triplaris gardneriana Wedd. |
| Pau Mocó | Luetzelburgia auriculata (Allemão) Ducke |
| Pereiro | Aspidosperma pyrifolium Mart. |
| Sabiá | Mimosa caesalpiniifolia Benth. |
| Timbaúba | Enterolobium contortisiliquum (Vell.) Morong |
| Trapiá | Crateva tapia L. |