Vegetation Catalogue

River

Ahuehuete (Taxodium mucronatum) is a semievergreen tree that can reach a height of 20 to 30 meters. It has linear, straight leaves that are subsessile, measuring 6 to 12 mm in length and 1 mm in width. The leaves are arranged in a distichous manner on hanging branches that are 10 to 15 cm long.

Higuera (Ficus carica) is a deciduous tree or shrub of low growth, it´s maximum heght is 7-8 meters. With a very open crown due to it´s profuse branching, which often arises almost at ground level. The bark is smooth and grayish in color. The leaves, 12-25 cm long and 10-18 cm wide.

Sauce (Salix humboldtiana) is a deciduous dioecious tree that can reach up to 25 meters in height. Its deciduous foliage is light green, with hanging branches. The leaves are simple, alternate, linearlanceolate, serrated, glabrous, with a pointed apex and wedgeshaped base, measuring 6 to 12 cm in length.

Jara amarilla (Baccharis salicifolia) is a shrub that measures between 0.8 to 2 meters in height. The stem is woody and granular. The leaves are elongated and straight with heads and lax, 10-15 cm long. The flowers are male and female, 5-7 mm wide, arranged in three hemispherical series and walnut-lik fruits.

Forest

Guaje Blanco (Leucaena leucocephala) is a shrub or small tree that grows from 2 to 6 meters in height. Its flower heads measure about 2-3 cm in diameter, with flowers that are whitish with a touch of yellow and turn salmon pink when they start to wither.

Mezquite (Prosopis laevigata) is a tree that can reach a height of up to 13 meters and a trunk diameter that varies from 0.8 to 1 meter. However, it is more common to find trees with a diameter between 30 and 60 centimeters. It has a fissured and sometimes lignified outer bark, which is blackish in color.

Guayabo (Psidium guajava) is an evergreen/deciduous tree or shrub that can grow from 2.5 to 10 meters in height. The trunk can have a diameter at breast height of up to 60 centimeters. It typically has a twisted and highly branched trunk, with hard wood. The bark of the tree is gray in color.

Primavera (Tabebuia donnell-smithii) is a deciduous tree that can reach a height of 28 to 37 meters. It has a diameter of 50-60 centimeters at breast height. The branching is sparse, and it has an irregular and rounded crown. The trunk is straight, and the bark is rough, ranging in color from gray to dark brown, with vertical cracks.

Tepeguaje (Lysiloma acapulcensis) is a tree that typically grows from 2 to 8 meters in height. It has a dark and fissured bark, and its branches are hairy, becoming less hairy over time (aglabrescentes). It is commonly found in deciduous and semi-evergreen forests. Tepeguaje is commercially used for sawnwood production for local consumption.

Guamuchil (Pithecellobium dulce) is a tree that typically reaches a height of 5 to 22 meters when mature. It has a short trunk with a diameter at breast height (d.b.h.) ranging from 30 to 75 centimeters. The tree has a broad and spread-out crown, and the bark is usually smooth and light gray in color.

Flor de mayo (Plumeria rubra) is a large shrub or small tree from 5-8 meters withdeciduous leaves, with straight trunk, little branching and an open and irregular crown. The leaves, with a glossy green upper surface and paler on the underside, are arranged in a spiral at the apices of the branches. They are simple, 15.30 cm long by 4-8 cm wide.

Ovo (Spondias mombin) trees are medium to large-sized, reaching heights of up to 25 meters and widths of 60 centimeters. They have a brown or gray outer bark, often rough with longitudinal crests. Suberous spiny projections are frequently present. The inner bark is pinkish-orange, and the trichomes (fine hairs) are white, generally straight, and erect, up to 0.2 mm long.

Parota (Enterolobium cyclocarpum) trees can have trunks up to 16 decimeters wide, with some specimens reaching 4 meters in diameter. They grow to heights of 16 to 28 meters, with a wide branching spread.

Ahuejote (Salix bonplandiana) is an evergreen tree that can reach heights of up to fifteen meters, although it is more common for them to reach only six meters. The diameter can reach eighty centimeters.

Cuaxtecomate (Crescentia alata) its a wild tree that measures between 8-14 meters in height and up to a meter and a half in diameter in the trunk. The leaves are oval and come out in threes from the same fascicle in the center, measuring 4-6 cm long.

Tempisque (Sideroxylon capiri) its a medium to large tree, up to 35 meters tall. Branches high on the stem; rounded cup. Simple leaf, smooth to slightly wavy edge and 5-20 cm long. Flower 10-14 mm, pale tellow.

Cazahuate (Ipomoea wolcottiana) is a tree that can reach heights of up to 12 meters. It has a smooth or slightly hairy (puberulent) trunk with a diameter of up to 1 meter at the base. The leaves are ovate to elongated and elliptical, measuring from 6 to 16 centimeters in length and 3 to 11 centimeters in width.

Camichin (Ficus pertuosa) is a tree or shrub that reach a size up to 30 meters, beginning as epiphytes but becoming independent; young branches glabrous, gray to yellowish-brown. Leaves elliptic to very narrowly elliptic or lanceolate, 5-12 cm long and 2-5 cm broad.

These being the main vegetation types, these are some extra ones:

- Malvaste (Cletha rossi)

- Ozote (Ipomoea intrapilosea)

- Rosa morada (Tebebuia rosea)

- Pugana (Magnolia pugana)

- Colorin (Erythrina flabelifoms)

- Amona de cerro (Anona longiflora)

- Colito (Oreonopase peltatus)

- Uña de gato (Mimosa benthami)

- Retama (Tecoma stuns)

- Amate (Ficus petiolaris)