Producers
The role of the producers is the bottom of the food chain which means herbaborees consume them. if the herbores started to have a bigger population then the producers would start having less of a population.


AN AMAZON ADVENTURE--PLANTS--BANANA
Name of Plant: Musa Acuminata
Description of Plant: the Musa Acuminata can grow to 15 to 20 feet tall,the leaves can also grow up to 6 feet. when the bananas are collectedsome of them are not ripe.
 
Uses of Plant (consumption/medicinal): food, bronchittas,cough, diareah a fever and tuberculosis.
 

Name of Plant: Theobroma Cacoa
Description of Plant: the cacoa can grow to 8 in or 20 cm it contains 60 seeds.
 
Uses of Plant (consumption/medicinal):
it is used to eat and can also cure asma treatment as well as heart tonic

AN AMAZON ADVENTURE--PLANTS--COCOA

Name of Plant: Artocarpus Altilis
Description of Plant: the Artocarpus altilis is an ever green that grows in the tropic through out new guina. The leafs on the tree can grow up to 6 feet
 
Uses of Plant (consumption/medicinal): it can be used on burns pains and rheumatism
 
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