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  • I got four pieces, a picture frame in bocote, a cheese board in diagonal stripes of different woods, a large serving tray in mahogany and maple, and a kleenex-box in bocote, for a total of 840 pesos.

    Trip report: Morelia, Michoacan 1999

  • I got four pieces, a picture frame in bocote, a cheese board in diagonal stripes of different woods, a large serving tray in mahogany and maple, and a kleenex-box in bocote, for a total of 840 pesos.

    Trip report: Morelia, Michoacan 1999

  • It bent out of the mangroves, the palm groves, the tall bocote trees flecked with white egrets.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • I remembered the tall cacti coming down to the beaches, the blue-water coves, the bocote trees flowering white, and the tiny hamlets.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • The foothills were covered with white-flowering bocote trees, and rioting bougainvillea edged the dooryards of the sparse villages.

    Kook Peter Heller 2010

  • A large and heavy blanket chest in solid bocote was a reasonable 7000 pesos.

    Trip report: Morelia, Michoacan 1999

  • A large and heavy blanket chest in solid bocote was a reasonable 7000 pesos.

    Trip report: Morelia, Michoacan 1999

  • They're paying for exotic woods - ebony, cocobolo, bocote - and intricate inlays of turquoise, ivory and still more costly materials.

    JSOnline.com 2010

  • They're paying for exotic woods - ebony, cocobolo, bocote - and intricate inlays of turquoise, ivory and still more costly materials.

    JSOnline.com JSOnline.com 2010

  • They're paying for exotic woods - ebony, cocobolo, bocote - and intricate inlays of turquoise, ivory and still more costly materials.

    JSOnline.com 2010

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