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El Potosí National Park
El Potosí National Park is a protected area in northwestern Mexico. It is located in San Luis Potosí.It has an area of 20 km2. The park was established in 1936 by president Lázaro Cárdenas. Geography The park is located in the Serrania de Rioverde, part of the Sierra Madre Oriental. It is west of the city of Rioverde, San Luis Potosí, Rioverde. The terrain is rugged and often steep, ranging from 1,500 to 2,480 meters elevation. El Cuatesoncito is the highest peak in the park.CONANP (2016). ''Programa de Manejo Parque Nacional El Potosí''. Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas (CONANP), Government of Mexico, December 2016/ref> The park is in the watershed of the Río Verde (San Luis Potosi), Río Verde, a tributary of the Panuco River. The park's forests are important to the hydrology of the region, helping moderate rainfall runoff and protect water quality. Climate The climate is mostly montane and semi-arid, with an annual average temperature between 12 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Luis Potosí
San Luis Potosí, officially the Free and Sovereign State of San Luis Potosí, is one of the 32 states which compose the Federal Entities of Mexico. It is divided in 59 municipalities and is named after its capital city, San Luis Potosí. It is located in eastern and central Mexico and is bordered by seven other Mexican states: Nuevo León to the north; Tamaulipas to the north-east; Veracruz to the east; Hidalgo, Querétaro and Guanajuato to the south; and Zacatecas to the north-west. In addition to the capital city, other major cities in the state include Ciudad Valles, Matehuala, Rioverde, and Tamazunchale. History In pre-Columbian times, the territory now occupied by the state of San Luis Potosí contained parts of the cultural areas of Mesoamerica and Aridoamerica. Its northern and western-central areas were inhabited by the Otomi and Chichimeca tribes. These indigenous groups were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Although many indigenous people died during Spanish colon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arbutus Xalapensis
''Arbutus xalapensis'', commonly known as the Texas madrone, Amazaquitl, or Texas madroño, is a species of flowering plant in the heather family. It is native to Central America, the southwestern United States (western Texas and New Mexico), and throughout Mexico. It is found in canyons and mountains, on rocky plains, and in oak woodlands, at altitudes of up to in the south of the range, but lower, down to in the north of the range. ''Arbutus xalapensis'' is a large shrub or small to medium-sized evergreen tree growing to tall with a trunk up to in diameter, with smooth orange-brown bark peeling in thin sheets. The size varies regionally with available rainfall, with small, shrubby plants in dry areas such as western Texas and New Mexico, and larger trees in moister areas of Mexico; plants in Texas, New Mexico, and the far northeast of Mexico are distinguished as a variety, ''A. xalapensis'' var. ''texana'', or even a distinct species ''A. texana'', by some botanists, but ot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dendroctonus
''Dendroctonus'' is a genus of bark beetles. It includes several species notorious for destroying trees in the forests of North America. The genus has a symbiotic relationship with many different yeasts, particularly those in the genera ''Candida'' and ''Pichia'' that aid in digestion and pheromone production. Species include: *'' Dendroctonus adjunctus'' - roundheaded pine beetle *'' Dendroctonus approximatus'' - Mexican pine beetle *'' Dendroctonus armandi'' - Chinese white pine beetle *'' Dendroctonus barberi -'' southwestern pine beetle *'' Dendroctonus brevicomis'' - western pine beetle *''Dendroctonus frontalis'' - southern pine beetle *'' Dendroctonus jeffreyi'' - Jeffrey pine beetle *'' Dendroctonus mesoamericanus'' - Mesoamerican pine beetle *'' Dendroctonus mexicanus'' - smaller Mexican pine beetle *'' Dendroctonus micans'' - great spruce bark beetle *'' Dendroctonus murrayanae'' - lodgepole pine beetle *'' Dendroctonus parallelocollis'' - larger Mexican pine beetle *' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ceratozamia Zaragozae
''Ceratozamia zaragozae'' is a species of plant in the family Zamiaceae. It is endemic to the Rio Verde in El Capulín, San Luis Potosí state in northeastern Mexico. It is a Critically endangered species, threatened by habitat loss Habitat destruction (also termed habitat loss or habitat reduction) occurs when a natural habitat is no longer able to support its native species. The organisms once living there have either moved elsewhere, or are dead, leading to a decrease .... It is found southwest of the Rio Verde, in Capulin district. References zaragozae Endemic flora of Mexico Flora of San Luis Potosí Critically endangered plants Endangered biota of Mexico Taxonomy articles created by Polbot {{Cycad-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cycad
Cycads are seed plants that typically have a stout and woody (ligneous) trunk (botany), trunk with a crown (botany), crown of large, hard, stiff, evergreen and (usually) pinnate leaves. The species are dioecious, that is, individual plants of a species are either male or female. Cycads vary in size from having trunks only a few centimeters to several meters tall. They typically grow slowly and have long lifespans. Because of their superficial resemblance to Arecaceae, palms or ferns, they are sometimes mistaken for them, but they are not closely related to either group. Cycads are gymnosperms (naked-seeded), meaning their fertilization, unfertilized seeds are open to the air to be directly fertilized by pollination, as contrasted with angiosperms, which have enclosed seeds with more complex fertilization arrangements. Cycads have very specialized pollinators, usually a specific beetle, and more rarely a thrips or a moth. Both male and female cycads bear cones (strobilus, stro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laelia Speciosa
''Laelia speciosa'', also known as the Mayflower orchid, is a species of orchid Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan plants that are found in almost every habitat on Eart ... from Mexico. It flowers between March and October, and has white-tipped purple blossoms. References Citations Bibliography speciosa Endemic orchids of Mexico {{Laeliinae-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orchid
Orchids are plants that belong to the family Orchidaceae (), a diverse and widespread group of flowering plants with blooms that are often colourful and fragrant. Orchids are cosmopolitan plants that are found in almost every habitat on Earth except glaciers. The world's richest diversity of orchid genera and species is in the tropics. Orchidaceae is one of the two largest families of flowering plants, the other being the Asteraceae. It contains about 28,000 currently accepted species in 702 genera. The Orchidaceae family encompasses about 6–11% of all species of seed plants. The largest genera are '' Bulbophyllum'' (2,000 species), '' Epidendrum'' (1,500 species), '' Dendrobium'' (1,400 species) and '' Pleurothallis'' (1,000 species). It also includes '' Vanilla'' (the genus of the vanilla plant), the type genus '' Orchis'', and many commonly cultivated plants such as '' Phalaenopsis'' and '' Cattleya''. Moreover, since the introduction of tropical species into cu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferocactus Histrix
''Ferocactus histrix'', also known as Acitrón barrel cactus (''Biznaga barril de acitrón'') is a species of Ferocactus native to central Mexico. It is a large barrel cactus that can be commonly found throughout all the Central Mexican matorral. It produces an edible fruit appreciated for its sour taste. Description This cactus grows as an unbranched spherical globe, and can reach more than 1 meter (3.3 ft) in height after several years. Mature plants can have their stem divided in up to 25 to 40 ribs. The epidermis is blue-green in mature plants. As in other cacti species, when the apical meristem is damaged, the plant produces new shoots from the areoles close to the tip of the stem. Spines are light yellow and turn brown as they age. There are one to four protruding central spines that are straight or slightly curve, flattened or angular and up to long. The six to nine radial spines are slightly curved, round and up to long. It produces yellow medium-sized flowers from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polypodium Aureum
''Phlebodium aureum'' (golden polypody, golden serpent fern, cabbage palm fern, gold-foot fern, blue-star fern, hare-foot fern; syn. ''Polypodium aureum'', ''Polypodium leucotomos'') is an epiphytic fern native to tropical and subtropical regions of the Americas. Description It is a rhizomatous fern, with the creeping rhizome 8–15 mm (rarely 30 mm) in diameter, densely covered in the golden-brown scales that give the species its name. The fronds are large and pinnatifid (deeply lobed), from 30 to 130 cm long and 10–50 cm broad, with up to 35 pinnae; they vary in color from bright green to glaucous green and have undulate margins. Several round sori run along each side of the pinna midrib, and the minute spores are wind-dispersed. The fronds are evergreen in areas with year-round rainfall, semi-evergreen or briefly deciduous in areas with a marked dry season. Taxonomy ''Phlebodium aureum'' is a member of a very small, and recently discovered genus. It ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tagetes Lucida
''Tagetes lucida'' is a perennial plant native to Mexico and Central America. It is used as a medicinal plant and as a culinary herb. The leaves have a tarragon-like scent, with hints of anise, and it has entered the nursery trade in North America as a tarragon substitute. Common names include sweetscented marigold, Mexican marigold, Mexican mint marigold, Mexican tarragon, sweet mace, Texas tarragon, pericón, yerbaniz, and hierbanís. Description ''Tagetes lucida'' grows tall and requires full sun to light shade. Depending on the variety or landrace, the plant may be fairly upright, while other forms appear bushy with many unbranching stems. The leaves are linear to oblong, about long, and shiny medium green, not blue-green as in French tarragon (''Artemisia dracunculus'' var. ''sativa''). In late summer it bears clusters of small golden yellow flower heads on the ends of the stems. The flower heads are about across and have 3–5 golden-yellow ray florets. The flower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Litsea Schaffneri
''Litsea'' is a genus of evergreen or deciduous trees or shrubs belonging to the laurel family, Lauraceae. The genus includes a large number of accepted species in tropical and subtropical areas of North America and Asia. Characteristics They are typically dioecious trees or shrubs. The leaves can be either deciduous or evergreen depending on species, and aromatic. They have leaves alternate or opposite or in whorls. The inconspicuous flowers range from greenish to white, greenish-yellow, to yellowish. The inflorescences are pseudo-umbels, flat-topped or rounded flower clusters, each pseudo-umbel with an involucre of four or six decussate bracts. Species Currently accepted species include: *'' Litsea aban-gibotii'' *'' Litsea accedens'' *'' Litsea accedentoides'' *'' Litsea acrantha'' *'' Litsea acutivena'' *'' Litsea aestivalis'' *'' Litsea akoensis'' *''Litsea alba'' *'' Litsea albayana'' *''Litsea albescens'' *''Litsea albicans'' *''Litsea albida'' *'' Litsea all ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dodonaea Viscosa
''Dodonaea viscosa'', also known as the broadleaf hopbush, is a species of flowering plant in the ''Dodonaea'' (hopbush) genus that has a cosmopolitan distribution in Tropics, tropical, Subtropics, subtropical and warm temperate regions of Africa, the Americas, southern Asia and Australasia. ''Dodonaea'' is part of Sapindaceae, the soapberry family. This species is notable for its extremely wide distribution, which it achieved only over the last 2 million years (from its region of origin in Australia) via oceanic dispersal. Harrington and Gadek (2009) referred to ''D. viscosa'' as having "a distribution equal to some of the world’s greatest transoceanic dispersers". Description ''D. viscosa'' is a shrub growing to tall, rarely a small tree to tall. The leaf, leaves are variable in shape: generally obovate but some of them are lanceolate, often sessile, long and broad, alternate in arrangement, and secrete a resinous substance. Many specimens have a pointed or rounded apex. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
