Plantas ornamentais para uso em sistemas agroflorestais: levantamento do potencial em área de agricultura familiar na Amazônia.

Abstract

Some communities have showed interest in keeping ornamental plants. But the problem consists in lack of encouragement to work on its production or even lack of studies related to the forest. Based on that gap of studies, it has been developed at Marcos Freire community, an area under INCRA’s control called Uatumã. Then, this study aims to take the plants power from subsystems, such as: yard, forest... taking into account gardening and social reproduction into the family unit. The reason of making this choice is due to earth has been used as a source of biological and social support. The method used in this research was a case study based on a systematical approach. The devices used to make it possible were an interview with prior identification of plants as well as their price at the flower shops from Manaus. The results of studying eighteen batches pointed out two hundred and forty goings on into the subsystems, like yard, forest ... From this point, seventy four species have been notified and one hundred sixty six have been registered by the researcher. It was possible to identify seventy species into fifty four genders that belong to thirty families. In the purposed classification to specify the vegetable structure in projects of landscape architecture, it was possible to identify four kinds of vegetables and eight other subtypes. From the results, the conclusion identified that the species are useful to ornamental use, as well as to management of agro forest systems into the familiar alternative of income through commerce, in order to reach in the demand of the ornamental vegetables related to landscape gardening in Manaus.