Wildlife of Mexico
Ceratozamia euryphyllidia
Ceratozamia euryphyllidia is a species of plant in the Zamiaceae family. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Zamia variegata
Zamia variegata is a species of plant in the Zamiaceae family. It is found in Guatemala and Mexico. It is threatened by habitat loss.
Pinabete de Chihuahua
Chihuahua Spruce (Picea chihuahuana) is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 25-35 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. It is native to northwest Mexico, where it occurs in 25 small populations in the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains in Chihuahua and Durango. It grows at moderate altitudes from 2300-3200 m, growing along streamsides in mountain valleys, where ...more ↓
Lacandonia
Lacandonia schismatica is the sole species of the genus Lacandonia and is endemic to the Lacandon Jungle in the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is known from very few populations and is considered endangered by the researchers who investigate this species. L. schismatica is a saprophytic species that contains no chlorophyll and has the unique characteristic of ...more ↓
pata de elefante
Beaucarnea gracilis is an attractive member of the subfamily Nolinaceae of the family Asparagaceae native to partial-desert areas in Mexico. Its name "gracilis", meaning "slender", is misleading, as its trunk is especially bulbous. It was formerly known as Nolina gracilis.
falso peyote
Astrophytum asterias is a species of cactus in the genus Astrophytum, and is native to small parts of Texas in the United States and Mexico. Common names include Sand Dollar Cactus, Sea Urchin Cactus, Star Cactus and Star Peyote.
Saguaro Cactus
The saguaro, pronounced /səˈwɑroʊ/ (Carnegiea gigantea), is a large, tree-sized cactus species in the monotypic genus Carnegiea. It is native to the Sonoran Desert in the U.S. state of Arizona, the Mexican state of Sonora, and an extremely small area of California, U.S. The saguaro blossom is the state flower of Arizona.
biznaga barril de Lima
Ferocactus pilosus, also known as Mexican Lime Cactus or Mexican Fire Barrel is a species of cactus from Mexico.
peyote de Querétaro
Lophophora diffusa is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts.
Viznaguita de Sanchez-Mejorada
Mammillaria sanchez-mejoradae is a species of plant in the Cactaceae family. It is endemic to Mexico. Its natural habitat is hot deserts.
ironwood
Olneya tesota is a perennial flowering tree of the Fabaceae family, legumes (peas, beans, etc), which is commonly known as Ironwood or Desert Ironwood. It is the only species in the monotypic genus Olneya. This tree is part of the western Sonoran Desert complex in the Southwestern United States, which includes flora such as palo verde, saguaro, ...more ↓
Black Mangrove
Avicennia germinans, commonly known as the Black Mangrove, is a species of flowering plant in the Acanthus family, Acanthaceae.
Árbol de manitas
Chiranthodendron is a flowering genus in the family Malvaceae. It comprises a single species of tree, Chiranthodendron pentadactylon.
White mangrove
Laguncularia racemosa (white mangrove; syn. Conocarpus racemosa) is a species of flowering plant in the Leadwood tree family, Combretaceae. It is native to the coasts of western Africa from Senegal to Cameroon, the Atlantic coast of the Americas from Bermuda, Florida, the Bahamas, Mexico, the Caribbean and south to Brazil; and on the Pacific coast of the Americas ...more ↓
red mangrove
Rhizophora mangle, known as the red mangrove, is distributed in estuarine ecosystems throughout the tropics. Its viviparous "seeds," in actuality called propagules, become fully mature plants before dropping off the parent tree. These are dispersed by water until eventually embedding in the shallows.
Buttonwood
Conocarpus erectus, one of two species in the genus Conocarpus, is a mangrove shrub and tree in the family Combretaceae growing on shorelines in tropical and subtropical regions around the world, including Florida, Bermuda, The Bahamas, the Caribbean, Central and South America from Mexico to Brazil on the Atlantic coast and Mexico to Ecuador on the Pacific coast, western ...more ↓
cuajilote
Bursera graveolens, known in Spanish as palo santo ("holy wood") is a wild tree native from Mexico and the Yucatán Peninsula to Peru and Venezuela that inhabits the South American Gran Chaco region (northern Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia and the Brazilian Mato Grosso). It is also found in Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and on ...more ↓
