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product_id: 60212512
title: "Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants: The Tropical Deciduous Forest and Environs of Northwest Mexico (Southwest Center Series)"
brand: "paul s. martindavid yetmanmark e. fishbeinphilip d. jenkinsthomas r. van devenderrebecca k. wilson"
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# Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants: The Tropical Deciduous Forest and Environs of Northwest Mexico (Southwest Center Series)

**Brand:** paul s. martindavid yetmanmark e. fishbeinphilip d. jenkinsthomas r. van devenderrebecca k. wilson
**Price:** 27019 kr
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- **What is this?** Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants: The Tropical Deciduous Forest and Environs of Northwest Mexico (Southwest Center Series) by paul s. martindavid yetmanmark e. fishbeinphilip d. jenkinsthomas r. van devenderrebecca k. wilson
- **How much does it cost?** 27019 kr with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
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Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants: The Tropical Deciduous Forest and Environs of Northwest Mexico (Southwest Center Series)

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Review of "Gentry's Rio Mayo Plants"
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2008*

For anyone interested in the vegetation of Sonora, Mexico this book is a must!  Back in the early 1980s I was very fortunate to be able to buy a copy of the original Smithsonian book published in 1942 and this current version is a wonderful update of that earlier work.  The new book includes additional plant accounts from years of plant collecting in southeast Sonora by botanists at the University of Arizona in the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The authors are careful to keep Gentry's original accounts in parentheses.Gentry spent a considerable amount of time traveling in the Alamos region of southeast Sonora during the late 1930s and during these travels he collected interesting information concerning the local names and medicinal uses of the plants of southern Sonora. In reading the plant descriptions and associated plant habitats you can almost envision the plant growing and flowering in its native habitat.  This book is nicely complimented by "Sonoran Desert Plants" and "The Trees of Sonora, Mexico" which look with greater depth into the larger plants and trees of Sonora.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Hidden treasure
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 13, 1999*

I was given the opportunity to catalog Dr. Gentry's herbarium collection at the Desert Botanical Garden in 1987-88.  I haven't seen the new edition mentioned here, but read the original work at the time I was cataloging his  herbarium specimens.  Through it, I was able to share his experience as an  explorer in the spirit of John Wesley Powell, someone who knew that the  American southwest is best delineated by watersheds, not along false  lat/long lines.  I met Dr. Gentry a couple of times, and remember the  occasions well.  Last time I saw him, when I was cataloging his collection,  I overheard a conversation between him and a consultant for the Fort  McDowell Indian Community.  The consultant was asking about desert-adapted  crop plants.  Dr. Gentry went into great detail describing many desert  plants suited to agriculture - tepary beans, jojoba, Lippia (Mexican  oregano), agave, chiltepines, gum arabic, etc.  I learned a lot just by  eavesdropping.  The consultant listened, but did not hear the words.  He  recommended that the Fort McDowell people plant cotton.  Not because it was  best suited to desert agriculture - far from that.  They planted cotton  because it needs vast quantities of water.  They did not want the best  desert-adapted crops.  What they wanted, instead, was the best crop for  wasting water, so that they could establish valid rights to the water.  Worse, I watched them clear off vast acreages of mesquite forests to make  room for the water-wasting cotton crop.  The Hopi call this koyaanisqatsi.  This book should help folks in southwestern north America realize that we  have a bounteous resource, if we can only learn to use it.

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