Mexico

Inflorescences of Sanvitalia procumbens

Sanvitalia procumbens

Published by Daniel Mosquin on October 30, 2018

Commonly known as Mexican creeping zinnia in English, my preference is for the more evocative Mexican common name: ojo de pollo, or chicken eye.

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Tillandsia recurvata on ocotillo

Tillandsia recurvata

Published by Daniel Mosquin on September 11, 2018

Mexican ball moss is not a true moss. Like its close relative, Spanish moss, it is a member of the pineapple family (Bromeliaceae).

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The emerging fruiting body of Agaricus bisporus

Agaricus bisporus

Published by Daniel Mosquin on July 17, 2018

Two billion dollars is the estimated annual crop value of Agaricus bisporus. Its common names in English include: common mushroom, culinary mushroom, button mushroom, table mushroom, and portobello mushroom.

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Patterns in the flower of Tigridia pavonia

Tigridia pavonia

Published by Daniel Mosquin on June 13, 2018

Peacock flower or Mexican shellflower is native to México, Guatamemala, El Salvador, and Honduras. It has also escaped cultivation as an ornamental plant, and naturalized in parts of central America and South America.

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Ipomoea tricolor along a roadside in Mexico

Ipomoea tricolor

Published by Daniel Mosquin on May 31, 2018

This Mexican morning glory was photographed along a busy roadside in México, just outside of the city of San Miguel de Allende. My travel companion for the October morning, David Tarrant (also a frequent BPotD contributor), made sure to stop here to let me get a few photographs before we continued on to see the […]

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Flower Medley in Querétaro, México

Querétaro Flower Medley

Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 20, 2018

It is a long road to Xilitla from San Miguel de Allende in México; six hours of driving without stopping. Stops are however necessary, not only for enjoying the plants along the way at the height of wildflower season, but also for the calls of nature. Sometimes the two are combined.

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Salvia microphylla, photographed in the wild

Salvia microphylla

Published by Daniel Mosquin on February 1, 2018

I wavered in my identification of today’s plant. Is it Salvia microphylla (blackcurrant sage) or Salvia greggii (autumn sage)? Complicating matters is that the two have overlapping ranges in the mid- to high-elevations of eastern Mexico, and, apparently, the two species will hybridize.

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