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Nopales, tunas and pitayas
Jeffrey R. Bacon
Spiny, tough and menacing, the cacti seem peculiar choices as culinary delights. Cacti are well known novelties among potted p...
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side-dishes
Henequen and its role in the Yucatan's shifting fortunes
John McClelland
The Maya produced fibre from the henequen plant since the time of Christ....
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Mérida, Yucatán
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Seeing the forests and the trees links
Ron Mader
Mexican forests cover more than 140 million hectares or about 72% of the national territory. That said, the trees are falling ...
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Triangle palm, yucca and thunbergia: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico
Linda Abbott Trapp
Three beautiful options for your tropical garden in Mexico are the triangle palm, yucca and thunbergia....
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Acalypha, anthurium and sago palm: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico
Linda Abbott Trapp
Three beautiful options for your tropical garden in Mexico are the acalypha, anthurium and sago palm....
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Gorgeous giants
Linda Abbott Trapp
The next time you find yourself in a tropical or subtropical zone, take a closer look at some of the large and lovely foliage....
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Tropical blues: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico
Linda Abbott Trapp
Blue can be compelling as the neon flash of a bird's wing, or quiet as a cloud, but it is never unnerving, always drawing the ...
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Allamanda, tulipan and zamia: ornamental plants and flowers of tropical Mexico
Linda Abbott Trapp
Three beautiful options for your tropical garden in Mexico are the allamanda, tulipan and zamia....
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Essential plants in the Mexican household: Limon, papaya and sabila
Maria Elena
Copyright © 2000 by Maria Elena. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. There are three plants that are an essential part of the M...
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El Arbol de Tule: probably the biggest tree in the world
Rohan Barnett
At over 2000 years old, El Arbol del Tule, which is actually an Ahuehuete Cypress, is amongst the oldest living trees in the w...
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Oaxaca Journal by Oliver Sacks
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Oliver Sacks is obviously too seasoned a traveller and too astute an observer to confine himself to ferns. One encounters a ho...
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Almost an Island: Travels in Baja California by Bruce Berger
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Bruce Berger is an excellent guide to the Baja. He’s been going there since the mid '60s, having driven the length of the pe...
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Las orquideas de Mexico
Luis Dumois
Orquídea. La sola palabra conjura todo aquello que es bello, exótico, raro. Un aura de fascinación ha rodeado siempre a est...
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Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila
Nancy T. Wilson
Sitting in bathtub-warm water in the middle of the desert looking at the surrounding mountains under a deep blue sky is a deli...
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Cuatro Ciénegas, Coahuila
Did You Know? Most "bark paper" comes from wild fig trees
Tony Burton
Besides being used as a kind of rough paper for records and correspondence, amate was also cut into human or animal forms as p...
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Puebla
Did You Know? Trade in Mexico's cacti grew in the 1840s
Tony Burton
A young Belgian botanist established a business exporting Mexican cacti to Europe back in the 1840s. Prickly Pear Cactus Fl...
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Did You Know? Popular children's chorus features cockroaches and pot smoking
Tony Burton
La Cucaracha (The Cockroach), one of Mexico's best known corridos, is a comic, satirical song, with infinite possibilities for...
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Did you know? Mexico has over thirty UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves
Tony Burton
A surprising percentage of Mexico's land area is protected in one form or another. A very large number of sites of archaeologi...
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Did you know? Mexico's Domesday Book
Tony Burton
Mexico's equivalent of the Domesday book was compiled in the sixteenth century. History shows that conquerors often have very ...
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Did You Know? Bouncing balls and Mexican ingenuity
Tony Burton
Rubber balls wouldn't bounce very high if it wasn't for some Mexican ingenuity. The Morning Glory Ipomoea alba, the tropical w...
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Did You Know? Mexico in the Guinness world records: part two
Tony Burton
An earlier column described several Guinness records and their connection to Mexico and Mexicans. This month's column examines...
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Did You Know? Mexico's national flower is the humble dahlia
Tony Burton
With more than 30,000 native flowering plants to choose from, who would have thought that the humble dahlia would become Mexic...
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Did You Know? Birth control pills come from Mexican yams
Tony Burton
The oral contraceptive pill, often referred to simply as "the Pill" was officially fifty years old on October 15, 2001. In the...
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Mexico City , México D.F.
Did You Know? Mexico's kapok trees aided the U.S. war effort
Tony Burton
Mexican kapok trees once helped the U.S. war effort. During the Mexican dry season, a peculiar and very distinctive leafless t...
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Did you know? In Chiapas, Mexico's Mam turn to organic farming
Tony Burton
Organic farming has helped some indigenous peoples in Mexico to reinvent themselves. How many people are there? According to I...
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