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Click on the thumbnails for images from our monster trip from Sonora to Chiapas in early 2007 to hunt for wild cassava, Burseras, cacti, ponytail palms, wild poinsettias, and many other plants:
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Antonio in the combi |
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Forest cacti: an incredibly tall
and slender Pilosocereus (left), and a
coarser and more open-branched Cephalocereus (right)
growing in a Jalisco dry forest. |
| El Salto
Pueblo Nuevo, Durango "Pueblo de Madera", a remarkable town in the cold
highlands where everything is based on wood- from building materials to
heating |
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Photo op with (l to r) Katherine
Renton, Joe Olson, Leslie Larson, and me while hunting simaruba clade Burseras in the Cuixmala Reserve of
coastal Jalisco. |
| Bizarre
rock formations near a frozen frosty pond west of El Salto, Durango |
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Laura and Joe measuring Manihot chlorosticta allometry in
the Jalisco dry forest. |
| José
Antonio and Angélica with Manihot
rubricaulis in the dry volcanic highlands near Durango |
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Laura with a flowering wild
Poinsettia in the western Manantlán massif in Jalisco state, the
largest population we have found to
date
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| Pressing Manihot along the dirt road |  |
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The fabulously strange Stenocereus standleyi growing on a
steep rocky face with Pachycereus
pecten-aboriginum and brown boobies. |
| The
view north from the Espinazo del Diablo pass on the
Durango-Mazatlán highway, which passes from cold, high pine
forest to tropical dry forest |
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| The
intrepid combi and our camp in the coastal desert of southwestern Sonora |
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| José Antonio collectng a Rathbunia/ Stenocereus in southwestern Sonora |  |
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| Angélica enjoying the lovely colonial plaza of Alamos, Sonora |  |
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| The pretty forests of the Alamos area, with flowering Tabebuia and Ipomoea trees, and a GREEN understory watered by winter rains, unique in Mexican dry forests, which are usually bone dry this time of year! |  |
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| Sunset in
the hills east of Escuinapa, Sinaloa |
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| José
Antonio triumphant and ready to collect Neobuxbaumia squamulosa in Colima
state |
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| Collaborator
Leslie Larson nearl Llano Grande, Jalisco, a tidy and very pleasant
town in a great plain in the middle of the foothills of the southern
Sierra Madre |
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| Mark
with a rare Poinsettia bloom in February in central Jalisco |
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