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Aerial roots from hemiepiphytic Heteropsis (Araceae) vines have long been used in Amazonia as a strong flexible material in construction and making handicrafts. Commercial demand for this product known in Brazil as ''titica'' has increased in recent decades for making wicker furniture. We conducted inventories, harvests and experimental root cutting in the Alto Rio Guama Indigenous Reserve in the...
Oleoresin extracted from copaiba (Copaifera spp.: Leguminosae) trees is a popular traditional medicine in Amazonia. I studied production ecology from three copaiba types in the eastern Brazilian Amazon. Mean oleoresin yield from the first harvest was 0.07 liters per tree for all trees drilled and 0.23 liters per tree for ones yielding some oleoresin. Yields were comparable toC. multijuga results in...
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