Plant
Jatobá
Hymenaea stigonocarpa
Also known as: Hymenaea stigonocarpa, jatoba-do-cerrado, Brazilian copal
Jatobá (*Hymenaea stigonocarpa*) — the 'Brazilian copal' — a hard-shelled pod with dry, floury, high-fibre pulp and a medicinal resin tapped from the trunk. 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.
Jatobá (Hymenaea stigonocarpa) is the ‘Brazilian copal’ — a hard-shelled pod with dry, floury, high-fibre pulp and a medicinal resin tapped from the trunk.
What’s distinctive
The woody pod holds a pale, mealy pulp with a strong smell, eaten fresh or milled into a fibre-rich flour for bread. The tree also exudes a hard resin (copal) long used medicinally and as a varnish. Jatobá is a slow-growing, deep-rooted Cerrado tree whose value as a standing, multi-product plant is a direct counter-argument to conversion.
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. Jatobá 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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