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Mexico, a botanical paradise located in southern North America, is the third largest country of Latin America and one-fifth the size of the United States. Mexico’s climate varies from temperate to tropical and from wetlands to desert. Mountain ranges as high as 7000 feet are responsible for the huge variation in microclimates and ecosystems.
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Unless otherwise stated, all Nahua terms are from Sahagún (1961).
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Tucker, A.O., Janick, J. (2019). Aztec Botany, Agriculture, Trade, and Medicine. In: Flora of the Voynich Codex. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19377-5_2
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