Maya Nut is a name I chose for the seed of Brosimum alicastrum. There were already a lot of indigenous names for it, but they all seemed too challenging for our target market (United States, Canada) to pronounce and remember. Maya Nut is native 2 places where English is the main spoken language (Jamaica, Belize).…
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This map shows the historical range of Maya Nut, it shows where Maya Nut Institute has educated communities about the nutrition and uses of Maya Nut, locations of Maya Nut processing facilities, retailers and where we and our partners have reforested with Maya Nut trees. Open the menu |≡| in the top left corner to…
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Recommended seed transfer zones. By restricting the movement of seedlings or seeds for restoration to within each zone there should be no erosion of Brosimum alicastrum’s genetic diversity. Image: Tonya Lander From a blog post by Alex Monro https://tropicalbotany.wordpress.com As part of a recent grant from the UK Government’s Darwin Initiative (#18-010) to provide tools to…
DetailsZonas de transferencia recomendadas. Al restringir el movimiento de las plántulas o semillas a dentro de cada zona de debería haber ninguna erosión de la diversidad genética de Brosimum alicastrum. Imagen hecho por Tonya Lander Del blog de Alex Monro https://tropicalbotany.wordpress.com Como parte de un proyecto de la Iniciativa Darwin del Gobierno del Reino Unido (#…
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By Chuck Peters Many Mayan ruin complexes were discovered by chicleros looking for forage to feed their mules after a hard day of tapping latex. The preferred forage was the leaves and twigs of Brosimum alicastrum Sw. (Moraceae), a common rainforest tree known locally as “ramon” (from the Spanish verb ramonear, i.e. to browse). The…
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I am delighted by this opportunity to write about Maya nut (Brosimum alicastrum) for the Crops for the Future website. Maya nut is an exemplary “Crop for the Future”. It is a nutritious and delicious neotropical rainforest tree seed and its commercialisation and consumption can reduce deforestation, malnutrition and rural poverty. It was a staple…
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On the 24th and 25th of April Erika Vohman (CEO of the Maya Nut Institute) and Mike Rowley a grad student at the University of Bournemouth gave two great talks at the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and its subsidiary, the Millennium Seed Bank at Wakehurst in Sussex. Erika spoke about our Darwin Initiative project with the tropical tree Brosimum alicastrum or Maya Nut which…
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Our recent findings have lead us to develop a protocol which enables the storage of Maya Nut (Brosimum alicastrum) seed for several months. As part of this we asked Wolfgang Stuppy from the Millennium Seed Bank to have a look at the anatomy of the fruit and seed to see whether we could get any insights into why it behaves as it does.…
DetailsThe kickoff to 2014 has been as great as any that we can remember since moving to Mastatal full-time in 2001. We have been blessed with an incredible local and “in-house” staff and intern crew whom all have helped make this a productive, pleasurable, stable and beautiful start to the year. The first months were…
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Reforest’Action is very happy to celebrate Earth Day by announcing a 3-year tree planting partnership with 500 000 trees by the end of 2016. Positive impacts of Maya Nut Trees planting on the field will be numerous: Sequestration of more than 85 000 tons of CO2 (over 30 years) Restoration of seriously deforested ecosystems Development of local…
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