Respectively are fruit and nut of the Pine of Paraná or Brazilian
Pine (araucaria angustifolia).
MORPHOLOGY of the Araucaria angustifolia
A high tree, pantry of peculiar format, imponent and characteristic
figure, is frequent in the landscape of the south of Brazil. The Araucaria
angustifolia belongs to a small group, that encloses only two sorts: the
Agathis, natural of Australia, and the Araucaria, that appears on Chile,
Argentina and Brazil, and also in Australia and in the Norfolk islands.
Although abundant in these regions, the pine trees aren’t homogeneous as
the European forests: the three appears mixed to many other plants, as,
for example, the imbuia, “erva-mate”, bamboos, and diverse herb plants.
A tree of high
bearing, with height between 24 and 35 meters, hardly reach the 50 meters.
With straight and cylindrical trunk it possesses 1 to 2 meters of diameter,
presenting thick, resinous, gray, wrinkled and cracked bark. The twigs
are long are lightly curved for top, with dense green-dark and very acute
leaves. When young, the plant possesses conical pantry and as it
reaches the adult age, takes the format of goblet or candelabrum, because
of the natural fall of the inferior dry branches.
Being a “dióica” species, the pine presents male units
that produce masculine flowers popularly called: “mingote”, “pinheco”,
“pichote”, finger, beyond other denominations and, femininas flowers, “pinhas”,
with approximately 20 centimeters of diameter, weighing 1 kg, contains
in average 120 seeds, or “pinhões”, being its spreading made by
the man; by birds like: “gralhas”, “maitacas”, parrots, “tirivas”,
as mammals as agoutis, rats, “préas”, “ouriços”, “serelepes”
and monkeys, guaranteeing the species perpetuation.
Of the 7.500.000 hectares of primitive forests of araucaria,
in Paraná (state of the south of Brazil) just 400.000 hectares remained.
Varied is the use of the pine, being able to affirm that everything
of it is used to advantage:
- The new pines are used as christmas trees;
- Due to its elegance and nobility of bear, it is used
in the scenery, mainly in gardens,
squares and parks;
- They serve to demarcate verge in agricultural properties,
too;
- Its wood is generally white, light and of multiple
applications as in the civil construction, folder mechanics, plated would,
“movelaria”, compensated, “caixaria”, sticks, cables of brooms, toys, musical
instruments, parquet blocks, wools and artificial silks;
- the twigs and rubbishes serve for firewood and
fuels of boiler;
- The knots formed by the insertion of the twigs
to the trunk, are used as power plant and as raw material for artisan parts
confection, for its durability, attractive coloration and forms;
- The chemical resin can be used for acetone manufacture,”terebentina”,
varnishes and other products;
- The “pinhões”, are consumed by the man, and by domestic
and wild animals, being also able to be used in the alcohol manufacture.
The indians of the south of Brazil, food collectors, had the “pinhão”(nut),
as the fruit par excellence, acting as well as spreaders of the pines forests.
SCIENTIFIC SORTING
Kingdom: Vegetable.
Division: Gymnospermae.
Class: Coniferopsida.
Order: Coniferae.
Family: Araucariaceae.
Sort: Araucária.
Species: Araucaria angustifolia (Brazil) and Araucaria araucana (Argentina
and Chile).
SYMBOLOGY of the Pinha-Pinhão Project
It can be made various analogies between the intentions of the Pinha-Pinhão Project and the Brazilian Pine or Pine of the Paraná:
PINHÃO:
Pinhão
is a nut. The “pinhão” is a seed. Because it’s a seed, it is a potentiality.
It locks up inside of itself at the same time the past, the present and
the future of the species. The “pinhão” represents the individual
that in it self possesses all the inheritance of a past, the potentiality
of the present and the possibility of the future. In a “pinhão”
exists an entire pine. It is a part that contains all. It represents the
force of the individuality.
There
are male and female pines. A sex pine is barren without the presence of
the other. In order to happen this union, is of basic importance the presence
of “polinizantes” ways, as the wind and insects. The “pinhão”
is resultant and only possible, with the interaction of the male and female
energy. The “pinhões”, thus produced, are spreaded mainly by animals
(“gralha azul”), that store “pinhões”, and later on forget them
on the ground. The “pinhão” represents the backing action of the
opposites, allied to the active presence of the nature as determinative
force for the man’s maintenance while species and as part of a whole.
PINHA:
“Pinha” is flower/fruit
of the pine. It’s contains the seeds, the “pinhões”. It is a structure
that gives sustentation to the “pinhões” formation.
It possesses a central core for where all the “pinhões”
are guided and fixed (it represents a common goal
that guides a lot of the people ).
From this central core, that is the part that connects with the pine, the
“pinhões” are nourished. Who looks at the exterior aspect of the
“pinha”, has the impression that all “pinhões” have equal format,
and that isn’t verified when the fruit is opened. All the group is
formed by individuals that differ between themselves, but, in a equal and
cooperacional vision, the differences, while group, are eliminated. “Pinha”
represents the force of the group.
BRANCHES AND LEVES:
“Pinhas” are
fixed to the branches. Branches, leaves and “pinhas” form a green set located
on the top of the twigs. This " green set " represents an intentional community.
In it several “pinhas” take shelter (groups of people). The groups are
differed between theirselves, but they form a unit when they are in a community.
It is normal people who congregate to live together, to possess goals in
common, but divide themselves into small groups to execute works or to
chose a leisure: a consequence of the individuality of each person. The
set formed by “pinhas”, branches and leaves represents the force
of an intentional community.
TWIGS:
The twigs are structures of sustentation of the different " green sets
" (communities) and they connect these last ones to the pine’s trunk. The
consequence, visually, is that there is a connection between the diverse
" green sets" forming a "network of intercommunication". The format of
this "network of intercommunication" can remind us the upper part of a
chalice. The twigs and the set, now formed, represent the union between
the communities and its intercommunication (Internet).
TRUNK:
The Brazilian pine has a trunk that is close to 50 meters of height
and 2 meters of diameter. The trunk is a really important structure that
keeps the “chalice" nourished with water and minerals proceeding from its
deep roots. It represents a strengthened connection point between the sustenance
of the ground (the Mother Earth) and the cosmic energies picked-up by the
"chalice". This set can remind us about the “Graal” (the “chalice” that
Jesus drank in the last meal), symbol of the biggest objective of the Alchemy:
the personal transformation.
GROUND:
The pine grows in ground (south of Brazil) where lives million of people
of all the planet’s ethnics. A land of people’s miscegenation (indians,
africans, europeans and asians) that live in peace. The ground represents
the ideal of equality and peace between people, the force of the globality.
The Pinha-Pinhão Project is taken root in the vigor of the union
of all the men who had exceeded to their differences and look for, through
the union and cooperation, to create a new society.
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