Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca {EDIT}

I'm still sorting through all my fotos from our visit to the Jardín Etnobotánico de Oaxaca yesterday. But here's some of my favorites so far, **I've now added some captions! There's still going to be more posts with fotos, not to worry! jajajajaja***

This is the tree called flor de cacao/rosita de cacao/Cacahuaxochitl... is not cacao at all! Its flower is used in the fantastic drink, Tejate, about which I will write at least one blog post!

Teosinte flowers

The trunk spines of the sacred Pochote tree. More posts shall be written about this tree as well!

Agave! aka Maguey (which is how it is more often referred to here)

Agave/Maguey comes in a dizzying array of species and varieties with so much variation in form-- I mean just look at how wide these leaves are!!! The are also incredibly thick and inflexible.

Sunlight filtering through the red, peeling bark of a Bursera spp. tree

oh this agave!!! another person on our tour came upon me taking fotos of this one, and I told him, I could spend an hour taking fotos of just this one plant. I wasn't even being hyperbolic much...