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yankeeirishman
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Cant believe I forgot this one!
LIME! Break the skin of a lime and smell with continuations, as you begin to feel carsick OR seasick. I learned this in Tulume, Mex. as I was dumping
my lunch into the sea?.
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Natalie--I think your first photo is a plant called Pedilanthus, or Mexican Bird of Paradise, which has milky sap. What makes me think its different
than the second photo is that has lots of basal stems.
The second photo is Jatropha cineria, Lomboy, which also has milky sap. they are both in the Poinsetta family. Jatropha usually grows as a single
trunked bush or small tree.
That's my guess anyway....and they are both used medicinally.
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Natalie Ann
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Mexitron - Thank you! I was hoping you would appear to help me figure out the plant thing. There are actually 3 plants and I
thought the second two were the same.... but I understand what you're telling me and will spend time later today looking up those plants you
mentioned.
If I wanted the best available Baja Plant Guide - not necessarily one I can carry on trips, but the best identifier of flora - what would be your
suggestion? I spend most of my time in Baja Sur; rarely make it north. Thanks in advance, amigo.
[Edited on 3-27-2005 by Natalie Ann]
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
.....Oscar Wilde
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The first photo could be Fouqueria diguetti--the shrub-like Ocotillo of the middle peninsula, but can't really tell. Any more photos of it?
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Figs
Hi Natalie Ann, The plant you suspected is a fig does not look like the fig trees I have seen.
I have a fig tree on my place here in the pacific northwest and also one at my place in Loreto. The leaves look somewhat like oak leaves only much,
much larger, especially the ones on the northwest tree. The figs form on the new growth at the base of each leaf. At this time the tree in my yard
(Washington state) is just starting to bud out.
In about two weeks I will be able to tell you how the one in Loreto is doing but I do not like to use the internet cafes so will not post here again
for several weeks, at least a month. My tickets are for a month but if I can get my wife to agree we might stay there longer. Still much work to do
on the house is my excuse. Sorry for dwelling so long but most of my thoughts right now are about Loreto.
Best wishes, Juan
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Natalie Ann
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Now I've had an opportunity to reread what you've said, Mexitron, and also look through my photos and my plant books.... I'd say you
are exactly correct about all 3, and thank you so much for the ID. I'm only getting to know desert plants and they're quite interesting.
So I'll ask again - best book you can recommend for Baja desert plants, por favor? Anyone else feel free to chime in here.
Juan - yea, definitely it's not a fig. I, too, have a fig in my back yard... a citrusy tasting white fig. Came with the house and
was undoubtedly planted by the Italian who built here in 1904.
As for getting to Baja, I'm with you! In two weeks I'll also be setting my sandals on Baja soil; a part of me is already there, having remained on
the last several visits 
Enjoy your every moment in Loreto!
Be yourself, everyone else is already taken.
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Natalie--Norman Roberts' "Baja California Plant Field Guide" is the best all around book for Baja plants. Easy to use, lots of pictures, relatively
non-technical. There are other more technical books(Gentry--Agaves of BC, Munz--Grasses of BC, Wiggins--Flora of Baja California) but they're mostly
for the taxonomists.
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Is that "instant" fertilizer I see coming out?
What control freaks there are here. Don\'t believe that post you just read!
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I've got a couple for you:
Sore throat: 3 drops of "tabasco" in 2 oz. of warm h2o tossit back and gargle as long as you can. Then spit. Almost any pepper sauce should work for
this. They all contain capcacin which has an anesthetic effect and provides a hostile environment for bacteria/virus replication. Repeat process if
pain returns.
Sunburn preventive: 2 tablets 325 mg aspirin an houre before exposure helps. The aspirin promotes peripheral cappilary circulation thereby keeping the
skin cooler. PLEASE !!!!! Dont use aspirin if you have any bleeding disorder or are taking blood thinners ie. Coumadin.
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I hadn't read this thread...
as we were down south I guess, but tonight we're sitting in our computer room (80 Sq Ft with 5 desks and 5 computers) in Ventura, CA. Mary Ann sees
Pompano's post about the young lad and his Bruja story and new wife and she reads it to us.
What a great story and what a wonderful thread. We printed the whole thing out so we can study it more closely, medicinally, once we're settled in
Bahia de Los Angeles.
In the mean time, Pompano, thanks for a great post.
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