Kopfstein 2015 (Article) Hechtia

An Ethnobotanical Note: Hechtia edulis

Author(s):—R. Kopfstein

Publication:—Journal of the Bromeliad Society 64(4): 258-263. (2015)

Abstract:—During the past five years Andy Siekkinen and I have journeyed more than 28,000 miles throughout the Republic of Mexico searching out the various identified and unidentified species of Hechtia , a genus which is restricted almost exclusively to that country. From the northern border states of Sonora and Chihuahua to the southern border state of Chiapas we have traveled every kind of road from superhighway to dirt and gravel secondary tracks through villages and wilderness