🌳There is a tree at eye level in front of Eco Lodge Itororó’s deck, which has been attracting a wide variety of bird species in the past years.
Very suitable for reforestation and environmental preservation, this native tree to the Atlantic Rain Forest reaches up to 20 m in height and grows up to a circumference of 50 cm when fully grown. Known as Capororoca, meaning ‘the tree that snaps’ in Tupi-Guarani, it is a melliferous tree regarded among the region’s most important native trees, as it provides food for over thirty-five bird species and several animals such as the howler monkeys, Alouatta fusca.
It is a pioneer evergreen plant, characteristic of secondary formations of the Atlantic rainforest. Its seeds germinate naturally after passage through the bird’s stomach. Among the species that we are seeing regularly feeding at this tree at Itororó are the Swallow-tailed Cotinga, Blue Dacnis, Gilt-edged Tanager, and the Social Flycatcher, to name a few.
Channel-billed Toucans are known to appreciate this tree’s fruits as well. Rapanea ferruginea is naturally found especially in forests with Araucarias (Mixed Ombrophile Forests) and also common in secondary associations of the Atlantic Rainforest and high mountain forests.
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