Guarana & Brasil

Today I will explain more detail about the Guaraná plant! Paullinia cupana is a dicot plant, a structure whose embryo has two cotyledons.   https://extension.illinois.edu/gpe/glossary/dicot.html Constituted by a fibrous root system, with thin, moderately branching roots growing from the stem. https://garden.org/courseweb/course1/week1/page8.htm Guaraná is a flower's are monoecious, it means that is a complete flower , where the flowers on the same plant have pistillate and staminate. The black seeds are found inside the fruits. Fruit                                             Flower Growth habitat: How it is a  neotropical plant, native to the Brazilian Amazon. The climate of the region of origin is between 22 and 20 deg C. The minimum temperature tolerated by this specie is 12 deg C.  With annual precipitation must higher...

What is guaraná? From where it comes from? Are questions that can appear when you read this word. This is why I decided to write about this really interesting plant, to clarify doubts and give always new information and data about it. The guaraná plant or better  Paullinia cupana,  has a botanic family Sapindaceae,   the plants that compose this family are in temperate climates and tropical climates,what explains the origin, that is  Brasil, to be more precise from the Amazon rain forest. Guaraná comes from tupi guarani, a  indigenous language of the native peoples of the amazon forest. The plant is a  vine and u sually it shows in the forest as shrub, but as it is a climbing plant it is not possible to generalise this shape. Composed of white or light yellow  flowers , the fruits have red, white and black colours, and seems small eyes.  The plant has been used for a long time in Brazil, as the name itself has indigeno...