Below is a chart indicating the location of plantlife in the zones that are most visited by tourists. We have underlined the most common species.
| Coastal Zone |
Dry or Arid Zone |
Humid Zone |
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Sesuvium Mangle boton or button mangrove Salt bush Black Mangrove White Mangrove Red Mangrove Maytenus Nolana Batis Heliotrope Shore Petunia (Cacabus) Puncture Vine Morning glory
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Molluga Alternantha Portulacia Poison Apple Gloryblower Espino Passionflower Tiquilia (Coldenia) Chamaesya (spurge) Lantana Prickly pear (Opuntia) Jasminocereus (Candelabra cactus) Brachycereus (Lava cactus) Palo santo (Bursera) Chala (Croton) Acacia Mesquite Matazarno Parkinsonia (Palo verde) Lycium Cordia Atriplex
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Bananas Mangoes Mulberry Butterfly weed avocado papaya elephant grass coffee Quinine balsa Datura arborea manihot root bamboo Lantana (exotic) Ferns/Sedges Guayabillo Guayabo or guava Lechoso (Scalesia) or sunflower tree Pega pega Cats Claw tree (Zanthophylum) Tillandria Justica Bidens
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