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.
Heliconia adflexa, Coban, Guatemala, Hotel Monja Blanca, FLAAR, by Nicholas Hellmuth
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Bibliography on Ceiba pentandra |
Ceiba trees can attain 50 meters in height and are characterized by large buttress, swollen trunks, spreading crowns, stout spines on trunks and branches, and palmately compound leaves with five to sever leaflets. The flowers of Ceiba pentandra are abundant on mature trees, but are inconspicuous with comparatively small petals and only five stamens (Zidar, & Elisens 2009). To the Maya, the ceiba (Yaxche) was a sacred tree that mapped out the upper, middle, and underworlds, represented the five directions, and stood in the exact center of the Earth, that is why it was called the “World Tree”, “green tree,” “first tree” or Ya’axche’ in maya. It has also been represented as a “cross–like” image, very common on sculpted elements such as palace walls, stelae, and sarcophagus lids and appeared infrequently on ceramics (Zidar, & Elisens 2009). In addition to its beauty and cultural value for the Maya, some of the following references listed here mention important properties of Ceiba pentandra, just like nutritional potential and antipyretic activity of its leaves, and antioxidative constituent from its stem bark. What else could we learn from the majestic tree? PDF, Articles, Books on Ceiba pentandra
Suggested webpages with photos and information on Ceiba pentandra
www.conabio.gob.mx/conocimiento/info_especies/arboles/doctos/14-bomba5m.PDF
http://orton.catie.ac.cr/repdoc/A0008S/A0008S31.PDF
www.arbolesornamentales.es/Ceibapentandra.htm
www.prensalibre.com/vida/escenario/la-ceiba-es-el-arbol-nacional
http://guiadelplantabosques.blogspot.com/2014/02/la-ceiba-pentandra.html
http://recursosbiologicos.eia.edu.co/ecologia/estudiantes/ceiba.htm
http://eol.org/pages/584794/overview
www.biodiversidad.gob.mx/Difusion/cienciaCiudadana/aurbanos/ficha.php?item=Ceiba%20pentandra
www.prota4u.org/database/protav8.asp?g=pe&p=Ceiba+pentandra+(L.)+Gaertn.
www.tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Ceiba+pentandra
www.tropicos.org/name/03900422?projectid=7
Updated June 29, 2021 by Vivi Hurtado |