Wednesday, March 14, 2007

A Plant Lovers Special Spot

When a botanist fellow asked me to come with him to the City of Eternal Spring, I was sort of bewildered. I hurriedly asked him, "Where in the planet is that?" I expected him to force me to prepare my passport and bring me again to another nation. If that was the condition, I would retort because I had not yet maximized my Mexico holiday. But instead, he drove me to Cuernavaca, Morelos and the rest was pure delight.

Cuernavaca is plainly a city of vivid flowers; that is why it hubs an ethnobotanical garden right in the heart of the area. The garden is so commodious that I even thought it was interminable. Visually fascinating, the plants and the rest of the flowers are displayed with diminutive signs on them, indicating their common and scientific names, botanical family, species, and usage. Right then, I realized why I was there; I remembered I came with a botanist fellow whom I assumed was not only glad to astonish me with visual aesthetics but also wanted to feed my intellectual curiosity.

Then, we went to the unit where the Mexican orchids are placed. Since almost all of the Mexican orchids are endangered, the garden staff was cautiously monitoring and taking care of the orchids' throng, which include species such as Epidendrum cilare, Encyclia, and Lycaste.

Scattered around the flourishing garden are edible and ornamental plants that are worthy of every flora lover's amazement. I was genuinely mesmerized. Since I was not publicly in the plant lover's list before I went to the garden, I asked the one who had the list to count me in.

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