Plant
Cagaita
Eugenia dysenterica
Also known as: Eugenia dysenterica, cagaiteira
Cagaita (*Eugenia dysenterica*) — a tart, watery Myrtaceae fruit of the open Cerrado, made into juice, liqueur and ice cream by cooperatives. A wild-harvested Cerrado native and a pillar of the biome's native-fruit cooperative economy, the standing-tree alternative to soy and cattle conversion.
Cagaita (Eugenia dysenterica) is a tart, watery Myrtaceae fruit of the open Cerrado, made into juice, liqueur and ice cream by cooperatives.
What’s distinctive
A relative of the jaboticaba and Surinam cherry, the cagaita is a pale, juicy, sharply acidic fruit borne abundantly on a small fire-tolerant tree. Eaten in quantity straight from the tree in the sun it is mildly laxative — the species name records this — but processed into juice, pulp, liqueur and ice cream it is a reliable cooperative crop with a short, intense season.
Why this entry
The [[cerrado|Cerrado]] is being converted to soy and pasture faster than the Amazon is being cleared. The native-fruit cooperatives — [[central-do-cerrado|Central do Cerrado]] and others — are the economic argument that an unfelled savanna can pay. Cagaita is one of the species that argument runs on; it ties the [[extractivism|extractive economy]] to the [[geraizeiro|geraizeiro]], [[quilombola|quilombola]] and Indigenous communities who gather it.
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- Substrate of: [[extractivism]]
- Shares approach with: [[baru]]
- Member of: [[plants]]
- Contained by: [[cerrado]]
- Stewarded by: [[quilombola]]
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