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When time and funding permit, each flower (each plant species) will have its own page, and its own PDF, and eventually its own PPT so that professors and students have plenty of material on Guatemala (and Honduras, etc) to study.

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This space is for flowers
we have recently found and photographed.

MAYA ETHNOBOTANY ARTICLES

Tropical Fruits of the Maya

Sacred Flowers

Spices, condiments, food coloring

Dye plants for textiles

Medicinal Plants

Miscellaneous Edible Plants

Plants and trees used to produce incense

Utilitarian Plants

Flowers, edible

Camera Reviews for Photographing Flowers and Plants

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SUBJECTS TO BE COVERED DURING NEXT 6 MONTHS

Grains

Vegetables

Edible leaves

Fruits

Fruits (typical misnomer mishmash of Spanish language)

Other Fruits (primarily fruits from trees)

Fruits (vines or cacti)

Flavoring, herbs, and spices

Root crops

Flowers, sacred

Plants which are sacred

Plants mentioned in myths

plants to produce Alcohol

Plants used for drugs

Plants or trees that are used to produce incense

Most common introduced plants (not native)

Pachira aquatica, zapoton, zapote bobo, crucial sacred flower for Maya archaeologists and iconographers

Read article on Achiote, Bixa orellana, annatto, natural plant dye for coloring (and flavoring) food (especially cacao drink) in Guatemala and Mexico.

Read article on Cuajilote or Caiba: Parmentiera aculeata, a forgotten fruit.

Read article on Split leaf philodendron, Monstera deliciosa.

Read article on Gonolobus, an edible vine from Asclepiadaceae Family.

Pachira aquatica, zapoton, zapote bobo, crucial sacred flower for Maya archaeologists and iconographers

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