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Tropical rainforest canopy at the Parque-Museo La Venta (open-air museum of La Venta). Rainforests are found predominantly along the southeastern Atlantic coast, in regions with frequent rain and warm temperatures that allow for plants to retain their foliage year-round.
For the purposes of this category, "Mexico" is defined in accordance with the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions. In the WGSRPD scheme Mexico is its own level 2 region, which is region #79.
The Laguna Miramar in the Lacandon Jungle. The Lacandon Jungle (Spanish: Selva Lacandona) is an area of rainforest which stretches from Chiapas, Mexico, into Guatemala.The heart of this rainforest is located in the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve in Chiapas near the border with Guatemala in the Montañas del Oriente region of the state.
The Maya Forest is a tropical moist broadleaf forest that covers much of the Yucatan Peninsula, thereby encompassing Belize, northern Guatemala, and southeastern Mexico.It is deemed the second largest tropical rainforest in the Americas, after the Amazon, with an area of circa 15 million hectares (150,000 km 2), of which at least 3 million (30,000 km 2) lie within protected areas.
These may represent the largest area of undisturbed cloud forest in Mexico and Central America. Pine forest 20% Mostly pines, typically found in temperate and cooler areas. Semi-deciduous tropical forest 6% Trees are 4–15 m high, and more than 75% of the species lose their leaves during the dry season. Tropical rain forest 56%
The plant communities of the tropical wet forest are the most diverse, abundant, and lush plant life in the world. The plants define the tropical wet forest by contributing to ecosystem functions, such as producing nourished rainfall and storing atmospheric carbon.
Monstera deliciosa, the Swiss cheese plant [2] or split-leaf philodendron [3] is a species of flowering plant native to tropical forests of southern Mexico, south to Panama. [4] It has been introduced to many tropical areas, and has become a mildly invasive species in Hawaii , Seychelles , Ascension Island and the Society Islands .
Ulmus mexicana, the Mexican elm, is a large tree endemic to Mexico and Central America. It is most commonly found in cloud forest and the higher elevations (800–2,200 m (2,600–7,200 ft)) of tropical rain forest with precipitation levels of 2–4 m (79–157 in) per year, [2] ranging from San Luis Potosi south to Chiapas in Mexico, and from Guatemala to Panama beyond.