pochote

The flower of the pochote is spectacular, in the spring, on the lowest extremes of the western barrancas.

The flower of the pochote is spectacular, in the spring, on the lowest extremes of the western barrancas. This flower is common in the Indigenous Community of San Buenaventura. 1996

Over igneous hills in the Bajio region, where the climate is warmer, one finds subtropical scrublands, with species like cazahuate or palo bobo, copalillos, acacia, prickly pear, jonote and pochote.

Southern Semi-Arid Highlands ecoregion (CEC) 2008

Other species of trees that can be found are pochote (Ceiba parvifolia), brasil (Haematoxylon brasiletto), cazahuate (Ipomoea spp.), Lysiloma microphylla, and Ipomoea murucoides.

Balsas dry forests 2007

In the center of the broad, unkempt expanse that served as plaza stood an enormous _pochote_, a species of cottonwood tree, and about it drowsed a Sunday evening gathering half seen in the dim light of lanterns on the stands of hawkers.

Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond Harry Alverson Franck 1921

A terrible thing in the hands of a sorcerer is a humming-bird stripped of its feathers, dried, and wrapped in pochote wool.

Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan Carl Lumholtz 1886