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Click on the thumbnail for images from some recent lab trips:
| Pico de Orizaba at dawn, near
where Armando discovered a new species of freshwater crab, hundreds of
miles from the ocean |
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Brahea
palms and oaks in the Sierra de Tentzo passes |
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| mezcal agaves grown on the
beautiful hills of the Sierra de Tentzo |
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The Sierra
looking north from the southern lowlands of the Tentzo |
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| Some
of the lovely towns of the Sierra de Tentzo have coscomates, the
ancient prehispanic style clay corn cribs with thatched rooves |
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Expert
thatching with Brahea leaves
on many buildings of the Sierra |
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| The
striking red trunks and flat crowns of
Bursera morelensis in the dry forest leafing out
with the first rains of the year |
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Armando
and the spectacular canyon of the upper Atoyac River near Huatlatlauca |
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| Armando and the Atoyac canyon |
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Searching (in vain) for wild Euphorbia cyri in the upper Mixteca
forests betweent the Atoyac and the Sierra |
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| We didn’t get a chance to look
for crabs in the waters of the canyon... maybe soon! |
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Lots of hillsides and gullies
still to explore. |
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| Fouquieria ochoterenae way
farther north than I ever thought it
grew.
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The impossibyly red and fancy flowers of Spreckelia spring from the ground in the baking dry season, a dry forest miracle. |  |
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