Plant List
This is a full list of all the plants (maybe we forgot one or two) that we have in our community or are growing natively on the land that are harvested for food (their leaves, fruits, or for other purposes), although we also have various flowers and ornamental plants here that we planted as well. We may have more plants on our land, but we have not identified some of them yet. There are not many fruits bearing yet as we just started the community in 2022.
This page is still under development.
Amazon Tree Grape or Uva de Monte
Pourouma cecropiifolia or the Amazon tree grape are sweet fruits, is a species of Pourouma, native to tropical South America, in the western Amazon Basin in northern Bolivia, western Brazil, southeastern Colombia, eastern Ecuador, eastern Peru, and southern Venezuela.
Rambutan or Achotillo
Nephelium lappaceum or rambutan is a medium-sized tropical tree in the family Sapindaceae that is sweet. The name also refers to the edible fruit produced by this tree. The rambutan is native to Southeast Asia, but is also grown in many other places in the tropical areas in the world. It is closely related to several other edible tropical fruits including the lychee, longan, pulasan, and guinep.
Orito Banana
The orito is a smaller variant of the banana, approximately 12 cm long and with a sweeter flavor. It is also called in English “finger banana” or “lady finger” for its dimensions similar to a finger. When ripe, it has yellow skin and almost white, creamy pulp with a high consistency.
Peanut Butter Fruit or Ciruela de fraile
Bunchosia glandulifera, commonly known as peanut butter fruit, is a species of flowering plant in the acerola family, Malpighiaceae, that is native to Central America and South America. It produces small orange-red fruits of sticky and dense pulp, with a flavour and aroma resembling that of peanut butter. It is mostly eaten fresh. The superficial appearance of the berries are similar to coffee and in Brazil is accordingly called caferana or falso guarana.
Iñaku or Paso
Gustavia macarenensisor more commonly known as iñaku (or iniáku) in Shuar or paso in Kichwa language is a rare Amazon fruit native from South East Ecuador jungles.
Papaya
The papaya, papaw, or pawpaw is the plant species Carica papaya, one of the 21 accepted species in the genus Carica of the family Caricaceae. It was first domesticated in Mesoamerica, within modern-day southern Mexico and Central America.
Naranjilla
Solanum quitoense, known as naranjilla “little orange” in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and Panama and as lulo, from Quechua in Colombia, is a tropical perennial plant from northwestern South America. The specific name for this species of nightshade means “from Quito.” The fruit has a citrus flavour, sometimes described as a combination of rhubarb and lime.
Madrono
The fruit looks like a shrivelled droopy lemon, and has a similar rind. The interior is soft white pulp and has a slight citrus taste. The fruit is not very well known outside of South America.
Arazá
Spanish common name arazá, also known as membrio, is a fruit tree native to the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil, Colombia and Ecuador. Very sour fruit usually added to juices.
Hot Pepper or Ají
Hot peppers or chili peppers (also chile, chile pepper, chilli pepper, or chilli), are varieties of the berry-fruit of plants from the genus Capsicum, which are members of the nightshade family Solanaceae, cultivated for their pungency. Chili peppers are widely used in many cuisines as a spice to add “heat” to dishes. Capsaicin and related compounds known as capsaicinoids are the substances giving chili peppers their intensity when ingested or applied topically. Chili peppers are believed to have originated somewhere in Central or South America. and were first cultivated in Mexico.
Noni
Morinda citrifolia is a fruit-bearing tree in the coffee family, Rubiaceae. Its native range extends across Southeast Asia and Australasia, and was spread across the Pacific by Polynesian sailors. The species is now cultivated throughout the tropics and widely naturalized. Among some 100 names for the fruit across different regions are the more common English names of great morinda, Indian mulberry, noni, beach mulberry, vomit fruit and cheese fruit. The fresh fruit’s strong, vomit-like odor has made it a famine food in most regions, but it remains a staple food among some cultures, and has been used in traditional medicine and as juices.
Borajó
Alibertia patinoi better known as borajó is native to Costa Rica and Esmeraldas, Ecuador. Non-sweet fruit. Green when unripe, brown to black when ripe. Falls from the tree when ripe. The fruit is large (about 12 cm in length), with a round shape and brown color and average weight of 740-1000 grams. The pulp represents 88% of the total weight. Each fruit has 90 to 640 seeds. Borojo is used in the preparation of jam, wine, desserts and traditional medicines with supposed aphrodisiac effects. It is also used by the local communities against hypertension, bronchial diseases and malnutrition.
In the future, these plants will be added with photo and description in alphabetical order.
- Achiote or Annatto (Bixa orellana)
- Almirajó (Patinoa almirajo)
- Amazonian Tree Grape or Uva de Monte (Pouroma cecropiifolia)
- Arazá (Eugenia stipitata)
- Avocado or Aguacate (Persea americana)
- Bananas and Plantains or plantanos (Musa acuminata / Musa x paradisiaca)
- Bamboo Orchard (Arundina graminfolia)
- Least Basi or Basilio (Ocimum campechianum)
- Black Sapote or Sapote Negro (Diospyros nigra)
- Borojó (Alibeetia patinoi)
- Button Mangosteen or Cherapú (Garcinia praniana)
- Cacao (Theobroma cacao)
- Caimito or Abiu (Pouteria caimito)
- Capsicum or Ají (sweet and spicy varieties)
- Chempejack (hybrid between Jackfruit and Chempedak) (Artocarpus integer x heterophyllus)
- Chontaduro or Chonta (Bactris gasipaes)
- Coconut or Coco (Cocos nucifera)
- Country Borage or Thick-Leaf Thyme (Coleus amboinicus)
- Cranberry Hibiscus (Hibiscus acetosella)
- Culantro (Eryngium foetidum)
- Cupuaçu (Theobroma glandiflorum)
- Dragonfruit or Pitahaya (Selenicereus undatus)
- Durian (Durio zibenethis)
- Durian Pulu (Durio kutejenesis)
- Good Luck Plant or Strawberries on Fire (Cordyline fruticosa)
- Ginger or Jengibre (Zingiber officinale)
- Guava or Guayaba (Psidium guajava)
- Ice-Cream Bean / Guama o Guaba (Inga edulis / other Inga’s)
- Jackfruit (Artocarpus heterophyllus)
- Juabuticaba (Plinia cauliflora)
- Katuk (Sauropus androgynus)
- Sweet Lemon or Limón Dulce (Citrus x limon x reticulata)
- Lemon Drop Mangosteen (Garcinia intermedia)
- Lemongrass or Hierba Luisa (Cymbopogon citratus)
- Luffa or Estropajo (Luffa aegyptiaca)
- Macambo or Bacao (ecuador Cacao Blanko) (Theobroma bicolor)
- Madruño (Garcinia madruno)
- Mandarin Lime or Limón Mandarina (Citrus x limonia)
- Common Mango (Mangifera indica)
- Mangosteen or Mangostino (Garcinia mangostana)
- Menteng (Baccaurea racemosa)
- Meyer Lemon (ecuador Limón Mey) (Citrus x limon “Meyer”)
- Miracle Fruit or Miracle Berry (Thaumatococcus daniellii)
- Morete / Aguaje (Mauitia flexuosa)
- Naranjilla or Lulo hybrid / híbrido (Solanum quitoense x sessiliflorum)
- Naranjilla del Monte (Solanum quitoense)
- Noni (Morinda citrifolia)
- Sweet Orange or Naranja Dulce (Citrus x sinensis)
- Papaya (Carica papaya)
- Paso / Iñaku (Gustavia macarenensis)
- Peanut or Maní (Arachis hypogaea)
- Peanut Butter Fruit or Fruta de mantequilla de maní (Bunchosia glandulifera)
- Pineapple or Piña (Ananas comosus)
- Pitón (Grias neuberthii)
- Pomelo (Citrus grandis)
- Rambutan or Achotillo (Nephelium lappaceum)
- Rollinia or Biribá (Rollinia Mucosa)
- Roselle Hibiscus, Jamaica, or Flor de Jamaica (Hibiscus sabdariffa)
- Salak (Salacca zalacca)
- Soursop or Guanábana and Mountain Soursop or Gunábana Locál, Guanábana de Montaña, Guanábana Cimarrona (Annona muricata) (Annona montana)
- South American Sapote or Sapote (Quararibea cordata)
- Taro or Papa China (Colocasia esculenta)
- Tumeric or Cúrcuma (Curcuma longa)
- Unguragua (Oenocarpus bataua)