Paullinia cupana GUARANA (5 seeds)

Guarana or Paullinia cupana is a tropical plant of the family Sapindaceae.
It is a climbing shrub that grows in Brazil in the Amazon rainforest.
It produces small white flowers followed by red fruit.
Paullinia cupana seeds are black, the size of those of tea tree or longan.

Guarana seeds have the highest level of caffeine in the world after yerba Mate, followed by Coffee and finally Kola Nut.

Due to its stimulating properties, Paullinia cupana can be consumed as an herbal tea, but most often the dried and powdered seeds are simply diluted in water or fruit juice.

Sowing seeds of Paullinia cupana:
Plant your Guarana seeds under 1 cm of peat in small pots of 10 X 10 cm.
Sprinkle copiously then, place your pots under mini-greenhouse at a high temperature around 35 ° C to 40 ° C.
Germination of this seeds is very slow, counting not less than 5 months.

- Tropical plant extremely rare.
- Has the highest level of caffeine in the world after mate. (6% for guarana against 2% for paraguayan tea and 1.6% for robusta coffee)

Do not consume without medical advice.
To cultivate for the collection of ethnobotanical plants.