Plants with white bloomCerrado biomass
----------Photographs - Geographical location----------

City : Pirenópolis

The west central Brazil is an area that can be divided into two parts:
The Planalto, formed of savannah area, with a well defined climate in 2 periods, rain and drought, and width the "Mato-grosso-goiano", lowlands from which come the sources of the Tocantins and Araguaia rivers.
The village of Pirenópolis is at the limit of these reliefs. The village lies at the foot of Pireneus, part of the division of planalto.
Region : Mountains of Pireneus
State : Goiás
- Botanical data -

Botanical family : Rubiaceae
Scientific name : Tocoyena formosa

Popular Name(s) : (Common names given to plants have very different origins, and thus may be different from one state to another or even from one municipality to another.)
pé-de-macaco, Genipapo-brabo

Geographical distribution (States) : Bahia, Ceará, Distrito Federal, Goiás, Maranhão, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Pernambuco, São Paulo,

Habitat : Country of cerrado
Flowering : October and November
Fructification : March
Description : Shrub width large flowers, elongated, width cream color at the beginning becomes bright yellow with time.
The fruits are yellow-green color.
Their name comes from the fact that monkeys like much these fruits.


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Botanical data published on this page are from the following books :

Plantas do Brasil − Espécies do Cerrado de Mário Guimarães Ferri. Editora Edgard Blücher LTDA.
Guia das plantas do Cerrado utilizadas na Chapada dos Veadeiros de Suelma Ribeiro Silva, Anna Palmira Silva, Cássia Beatriz Munhoz, Manoel Cláudio Silva Jr, Marcelo Brilhante de Medeiros (Projeto Veadeiros créé pelo WWF Brasil).
Flores e frutos do Cerrado de Carolyn Proenca, Rafael S. Oliveira e Ana Palmira Silva, Edition Imprensa Oficial.
Flores da Serra da Calçada de Leda Afonso Martens, Rafael S. Oliveira e Ana Palmira Silva, Editora ufmg.
Vereda - Guia do campo de Cássia Beatriz Rodrigues Munhoz, Chsterton Ulysses Orlando Eugênio, Regina Célia de Oliveira do Rede de Sementes do Cerrado
Site : http://www.rededesementesdocerrado.com.br.


Very well illustrated and documented divulgation book
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