Veracruz moist forests
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The Veracruz moist forests occupy the Gulf Coastal Plain of eastern Mexico, between the Sierra Madre Oriental and the Gulf of Mexico, centered on northern Veracruz and southern Tamaulipas and extending into San Luis Potosi, Hidalgo, Puebla, and Queretaro. This Neotropical tropical moist broadleaf forest carries a tall canopy reaching about 30 meters, with characteristic trees including Mayan breadnut (Brosimum alicastrum), sapodilla (Manilkara zapota), gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba), and mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), over a well-developed understory of epiphytes, lichens, and fungi. The climate is tropical and humid with mild temperature variation and roughly seven rainy months, delivering about 1,100 to 1,600 mm of rain a year. One Earth describes it as one of the richest faunistic regions in the Western Hemisphere, sheltering jaguar, ocelot, and endemic birds, yet logging and cattle ranching have left it critically endangered with little protected ground. For gardeners in warm, humid climates, native trees such as gumbo-limbo (Bursera simaruba) are familiar ornamental and shade-tree choices.
About the tropical & subtropical moist broadleaf forests biome
Warm, wet, highly productive forests — including tropical rainforests — with closed canopies, near year-round growing seasons, and the richest terrestrial biodiversity on Earth. Low seasonality and high rainfall sustain dense, layered vegetation from canopy to forest floor.
Collections for this ecoregion
No curated collection's plants all fit this ecoregion's zone range. We surface a collection only when every member would grow here — partial fits get filtered out rather than mislead. As the catalog and the curated set both grow, this section will fill in.