Mimosa caesalpiniaefolia Benth. is a native species from Northeast region, Brazil, which is cultivated progressively from Maranhão to Rio de Janeiro States. Its presents great potential for arborization, it surrounds it lives and wood production. The present work was realizated with Mimosa caesalpiniaefolia seeds with the objective to determine the substratum type, temperature, the middle time and the relative frequency of germination, for use as a pattern in the conduction of germination and vigor tests. It took place an experiment in the Laboratório de Análise de Sementes do CCA-UFPB, in Areia-PB, in completely randomized design with the treatments distributed in outline factorial 4x4, temperatures (constant of 20, 25 and 30ºC and alternate of 20-30ºC) and substrate (seeds cowered by paper shits, seeds on paper sheets, seeds into sand and seeds into vermiculite) in four replications of 25 seeds. The following parameters were analyzed: germination and of abnormal seedlings (%) first germination count, germination speed, medium time and relative frequency of germination, fresh matter and weight of dry matter of seedlings. According the results in all substrates the temperature of 25ºC was most adequate for conduction of germination and vigor tests for Mimosa caesalpiniaefolia seeds. For all temperatures utilized the best germination was observed when the seed were sowed covered bay paper shits.
Mimosa caesalpiniaefolia; substrate; temperature; germination; vigor
