CHAPULTEPEC
Here are pics from Chapultepec (including the botanical gardens) in the western part of Mexico City. For the rest of Mexico City, go here.

Entering Chapultepec (with Monumento a los Niños Héroes in the distance)...



Looking the other direction...



Monumento a los Niños Héroes...



The most common tree in Mexico City...the evergreen ash (Fraxinus uhdei) along this walkway with vendors...



A rather large Mexican cypress (Taxodium mucronatum) in Chapultepec (a tree common in many parts of Mexico, both highland and lowland)...



Now, to the botanical garden...

A large (but still fairly new) succulent garden...



Opuntia robusta, a prickly pear native to much of highland Mexico...



Nopalxochia (Disocactus) phyllantoides, a Christmas-cactus type of succulent native to parts of SE Mexico...





Agave salmiana, a common agave native to the Mexico City area...



Some very handsome Ensete (banana-related) plants...



Dasylirion acrotriche var. parryanum (green satol), native to Central Mexico...



All of the above pictures on this page were taken in March 2009 by Brandt Maxwell.

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