Trees of Mexico Peccary Wood or Peacock Flower

Peccary Wood or Peacock Flower (English), Chaparral  (Spanish), Kitinché, Kitanché (Maya), Caesalpinia gaumeri Greenm, Fabaceae Family from Mexico, the Peccary Wood tree is one of the most dominating trees in the northern region of Yucatan's forest.  Kitinche trees are part of the Mayan non-crop plant resources and important source of pollen and nectar for bees in the Yucatan, Mexico, the lovely Caesalpinia gaumeri Greenm is a prefer firewood for most rural Mayan people. 

Trees of Mexico Wild Tamarind or Lead Tree

Wild Tamarind or Lead Tree (English),     Guaje (Spanish) Uaxim (Maya) Leucaena leucocephala. Fabaceae Family. Native to Mexico.  Mayans use its branches for charcoal and firewood and for fencing.  Seeds and bark also use for healing remedies. Grows wild in the Maya forest, grayish trunk; foliage nutritional for feeding ruminants, bipinnate leaflets, yellow-cream small pompom like fuzzy blooms; gives abundant brown rusted color pendant seed pods in May and June.

Trees of Mexico Strangler Fig

Strangler Fig (English), Higuero (Spanish), Amatl (Maya-Naualt) Ficus cotinifolia, Moraceae fig Family.  Native to Mesoamerica. An evergreen strangler fig tree that has 2" round tip leafs and produces small berries at the base of leaf stems; pollinated by ants and bees, propagated by bats, These Ficus are strangler figs, their roots are a mayor factor for the demolition of many Mayan temples (ruins) and Colonial Haciendas in Yucatan, Mexico.   Ancient Mayans used the wild strangler figs bark to handmade "Copo or Amatl" a amate paper for their books and codices.