from Jim Conrad's Naturalist Newsleter: selected
WOODY PLANTS of the YUCATÁN

 SHORTCUTS TO IMPORTANT FAMILIES: 
  BEAN FAMILY | HIBISCUS FAMILY | PALM FAMILY

  • Acalypha Bush (Acalypha leptopoda)
  • Acalypha Bush (Acalypha villosa)
  • Adelia barbinervis
  • Adelia oaxacana
  • Alvaradoa (Alvaradoa amorphoides)
  • Astrocasia (Astrocasia tremula)
  • Australian Pine (Casuarina equisetifolia)
  • Barbados-Cherry (Malpighia glabra)
  • Beautyberry, Mexican (Callicarpa acuminata)
    • BEAN FAMILY (Fabaceae)
    Leaves entire or 1-pinnate: once-pinnate leaf Leaves 2- or 3-pinnate: twice-pinnate leaf
  • Bec (Ehretia tinifolia)
  • Bonete (Jacaratia mexicana)
  • Bully Tree (Sideroxylon obtusifolium ssp. buxifolium)
  • Bourreria (Bourreria pulchra)
  • Brush-Holly (Xylosma flexuosa)
  • Byttneria aculeata
  • Calabash-tree (Crescentia cujeta)
  • Canistel (Pouteria campechiana)
  • Capulín (Muntingia calabura)
  • Capulín (Trema micranthum)
  • Casearia (Casearia corymbosa)
  • Casearia (Casearia subsessiliflora)
  • Cecropia (Cecropia peltata)
  • Cedro (Cedrela odorata)
  • Chili Pequín (Capsicum annum var glabriusculum)
  • Chromolaena (Chromolaena laevigata)
  • Coccoloba spicata)
  • Coffee Colubrina (Colubrina arborescens)
  • Cow Itch (Urera baccifera)
  • Crossopetalum Bush(Crossopetalum gaumeri)
  • Crossopetalum Bush(Crossopetalum parviflorum)
  • Croton, "Ek Balam" (Croton cortesianus)
  • Crucillo (Randia obcordata)
  • Cudjoe-wood (Bonellia macrocarpa)
  • "Dog Jasmine" (Tabernaemontana amygdalifolia)
  • Enriquebeltrania crenatifolia
  • Exostema mexicanum
  • Euphorbia, Tree (Euphorbia schlechtendalii)
  • Falsewillow, Broombush (Baccharis dioica)
  • Fiddlewood (Vitex gaumeri)
  • Fig, Red-fruited (Ficus crassinervia)
  • Fig, Strangler (Ficus cotinifolia)
  • Fig, Strangler
  • Fig, Strangler (Ficus obtusifolia)
  • Fig, Wild (Ficus maxima)
  • Frangipani, Wild (Plumeria cf obtusa)
  • Garcia (Garcia nutans)
  • Giant Milkweed (Calotropis procera)
  • Golden Dewdrop (Duranta erecta)
  • Guaya, Wild (Talisia oliviformis)
  • Guettarda (Guettarda cf. coombsii)
  • Gumbo-Limbo (Bursera simaruba)
  • Gymnopodium floribundum
  • Heliocarpus donnellsmithii
  • Helicopter Tree (Gyrocarpus jatrophifolius)
  • Heteropterys brachiata
    • HIBISCUS FAMILY
    (broad sense, with the old Bombax & Sterculia families)
  • Hybanthus longipes
  • Hybanthus yucatanensis
  • Jacaratia (Jacaratia mexicana)
  • Jack-in-the-Bush (Chromolaena odorata)
  • Kulinché (Astronium graveolens)
  • Mala Mujer (Cnidoscolus aconitifolius)
  • Mala Mujer (Cnidoscolus sousae)
  • Manioc, Tree (Manihot cf. carthaginensis)
  • Manioc, Wild (Manihot aesculifolia)
  • Eumachia microdon
  • Marlberry (Ardisia escallonioides)
  • Mexican Ponytail (Beaucarnea pliabilis)
  • Mistletoe (Phoradendron mucronatum
  • Mistletoe (Phoradendron quadrangulare
  • Mistletoe, Mayan Tropical (Psittacanthus mayanus)
  • Mistletoe, Tropical (Struthanthus cassythoides)
  • Mombin, Yellow (Spondias mombin)
  • Mora (Chlorophora tinctoria)
  • Nakedwood (Colubrina yucatanensis)
  • Neea psychotrioides
  • Neomillspaughia emarginata
    • PALM FAMILY

  • Palo de Caja (Allophyllus cominia)
  • Papaya, Wild (Carica papaya)
  • Pepper, Red (Capsicum frutescens)
  • Pepper, Rough-leaved (Piper amalago)
  • Pepper, Yucatan (Piper neesianum)
  • Persimmon (Diospyros anisandra)
  • Persimmon, "Yates's" (Diospyros yatesiana)
  • Petunia, Wild (Ruellia inudata)
  • Phyllostylon brasiliense
  • Picramnia cf. teapensis)
  • Pigeonberry (Rivina humilis)
  • Podopterus mexicanus)
  • Poinsettia, Wild (Euphorbia cyathophora)
  • Poisonwood (Metopium brownei)
  • Pomol Ché (Jatropha gaumeri)
  • Potatotree (Solanum erianthum)
  • Princewood(Cordia gerascanthus)
  • Princewood (Exostema caribaeum)
  • Psidium sartorianum)
  • Pull-back-and-hold (Pisonia aculeata)
  • Ramón (Brosimum alicastrum)
  • Randia (Randia longiloba)
  • Sapodilla (Manilkara zapota)
  • Sapranthus (Sapranthus campechianus)
  • Scarlet-Bush (Hamelia patens)
  • Sea-Lavender (Tournefortia gnaphalodes)
  • Silk Cottontree (Cochlospermum vitifolium)
  • Siricote (Cordia dodecandra)
  • Siricote (Cordia sebestena)
  • Sip-Che' Bunchosia glandulosa
  • Snakewood (Colubrina elliptica)
  • Snowberry (Chiococca alba)
  • Spicewood (Calyptranthes pallens)
  • Spurge, Slipper (Euphorbia personata)
  • Sweet Mangrove (Maytenus phyllanthoides)
  • Tetrapteris (Tetrapterys schiedeana)
  • Tree Daisy (Montanoa atriplicifolia)
  • Trichilia hirta)
  • Trixis (Trixis inula)
  • Varronia (Varronia globosa)
  • Velvetseed (Guettarda elliptica)
  • Vining Bush Morning-Glory (Ipomoea carnea ssp carnea)
  • Wattle Tree (Diospyros tetrasperma)
  • Wild Mamey (Alseis yucatanensis)
  • Wild Manioc (Manihot aesculifolia)
  • Wild Oregano (Lippia graveolens)
  • Wild Sage (Lantana camara)
  • Wild Sage (Lantana hirta)
  • Wild Sage (Lantana involucrata)
  • Yellow-Oleander, "Wild" (Cascabela (Thevetia) gaumeri)
  • Yucatan Jasmine (Casearia (Samyda) yucatanensis)

    • ALSO:

    THORN FOREST/SCRUB OF
    NORTHWESTERN YUCATAN

    Thorn forest occurs in several places in Mexico, not just in the Yucatan. Along the Pacific coast of southern and central Mexico as far south as Acapulco there's a lot, and pockets of it appear in Tamaulipas and Veracruz. Wherever it appears in Mexico, members of the Bean Family, the Leguminoseae, are foremost among the woody plants, and these trees and bushes usually bear spines and/or thorns. The main Bean-Family genera are Acacias, Caesalpinia, Cassia and Mimosa.

    AND...