ESTABLISHMENT OF A GARDEN IN VIVO AND EX SITU OF SPECIES OF PIPERACEAE IN FUSAGASUGÁ, COLOMBIA

Piperaceae family plants have secondary metabolites with potential use in medicine for preventing and curing diseases and in agriculture to control plant disease problems. Due to the expansion of agricultural borders and development of roads and infrastructure, these species tend to disappear. This study was conducted at the farm “La Esperanza” at the University of Cundinamarca (Colombia), whose goal was study the propagation and subsequent maintenance in a garden in in vivo and ex situ Piperaceae species collected in the Sumapaz province. Among the results is emphasized that these wild plants can be propagated using basal stem cuttings softwood and semi-hardwood with a sand substrate in greater higher fraction. The plant material propagated needs a hardening-off phase to allow plant acclimation before being transplanted to final place. In the garden fourteen species were included of the genus Piper: P. aduncum, P. arboreum, P. artanthe, P. bogotense, P. cumanense, P. dilatatum, P. el-bancoanum, P. eriopodon, P. eriocladum, P. holtonii, P. marginatum, P. peltatum, P. septulinervium and P. subtomentosum. And six species of the genus Peperomia: P. griseoargentea, P. leucostachia, P. tetraphylla, P. peltoidea, P. obtusifolia, P. sp Accession CMF 043. The garden is fundamental to conserve genetic diversity of the family, for mass propagation of these species and search for new secondary metabolites.