Etnoecologia do cambuci (campomanesia phaea (o. Berg) landrum) pela população de paranapiacaba, sudeste do brasil

Abstract

Human and nature relationships are as old as history. However, biodiversity is in danger through anthropic activities. Current analysis studies the relationship between urban populations and the tree species Campomanesia phaea (O. Berg) Landrum, popularly known in Brazil as cambuci, greatly used for different ends, close to a conservation area in the Atlantic Rainforest in southeastern Brazil. The population of the district Paranapiacaba, in Santo André SP Brazil, closely related to cambuci, was analyzed. Fifty interviews with local residents and shopkeepers were undertaken through informal conversation and speech association. The different plant usages were discussed, coupled to other aspects of the plants ecology. The interviewed manifested knowledge on the floral visitors of C. phea and the fruits probable spreaders. Data on plantlets indicate that people enhance the species due to their usage for different aims and produce plantlets by seeds and buds retrieved from the woods. The main use of the cambuci by residents in Paranapiacaba is food made from its fruits, such as jelly, liquor, alcoholic beverage, mousse, ice cream, cake, and the regiońs traditional juice.