About Us

     Botanica Pop Ltd. a Brazilian company specialized in breeding and propagation of CAM metabolism plants offers genetics, technology, and branding worldwide.

BOTANICA POP Ltd. develops tropical agriculture and horticulture for supporting biodiversity prospection, genetic innovation and rare accesses conservation. 

An extensive portfolio of products and projects have been built up over the last three decades of plant breeding and domestication.

     BOTANICA POP Ltd. activities and products are under supervision of Pedro Nahoum, botanist and plant breeder, founder of the company in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the year 2000.

With an old family tradition on science, visual arts and farming, Pedro Nahoum acts on plant propagation from seeds since 1986, with greenhouse growing and irrigated sandy fields continuously running over the last 34 years. Got his degree as a bachelor of Ecology from Rio de Janeiro Federal University in 1998, and is a student of Biodiversity Management at the National School of Tropical Botany - Environment Ministry of Brazil (ENBOT/MMA).

BOTANICA POP's founder have been participating in native species studying, domestication and genetic innovation since early 1990s, with new species introductions and advanced generation hybrids of pineapple, bromeliads, cacti, Aloe and Brazilian CAM metabolism plants.

     Since 2008 Pedro Nahoum and the company BOTANICA POP Ltd. are supported in innovation, technology and science from federal and state innovation and research agencies FAPERJ and FINEP

Research, Development & Innovation in Tropical Fruits