If you want to decorate your house with the most beautiful plants that abound in the most beautiful land of Baja California Sur, you will be interested in reading this article that we have for you.

Damiana local.

The local damiana is a shrub that grows in arid and semi-arid areas such as Baja California Sur, where over the years it has gained great importance because its leaves are used to prepare infusion drinks, infuse syrups, as liquor flavorings and even medicinal uses.

In the state this plant grow

s wild along with some cacti. It became commercially known between 1850 and 1874, when Antonio Ruffo Santacruz began exporting it to the United States and Europe, and it was not until then that Southern Californians realized that it was a treasure, since this herb is a plant that grows in rare places such as Tropical America, Brazil, Bolivia, California and Mexico, to which aphrodisiac powers are attributed and to produce positive effects on the digestive process, in addition to being relaxing.

The community of La Trinidad, located in the municipality of Los Cabos, is an area that has great development potential for Damiana, chiltepin chili and oregano crops, because the plants are born in the rangeland and are harvested in a rustic way, It can be found as an herb for infusion, in drops, in tonic, in capsules and even as a liquor. There are visitors who usually buy it as a souvenir, since it has become a distinctive feature of Baja California Sur.

Abronia marítima

It is a species that grows near the coast of California, Baja California. They are good at absorbing salt water, they do not tolerate fresh water or prolonged drought, their tissues are adapted to store salt. Its flowers bloom throughout the year in clusters of intense colors such as red, pink and purple. It is a rare plant whose habitat usually coincides with areas traveled by beings.

Carpobrotus aequilaterus

It is a species of succulent plant that is native to South America, and its fruits are edible when they are immature, since when the fruits are ripe they have a slightly bitter flavor.

Agave shawii

Agave shawii is a species of succulent plant belonging to the former family Agavaceae now subfamily Agavoideae. It is found only along the Pacific coast of Baja California, extending north into the coastal chaparrals of humid southern California.

It is a small-medium agave with green, ovate leaves 20-50 cm long and 8-20 cm wide, and a variety of toothed margins. The inflorescences form a panicle 2-4 meters high whose 8-14 lateral umbels support large purple bracts. Each umbel consists of a mass of yellow to reddish flowers.

The subspecies goldmaniana is generally larger with lanceolate leaves (40-70 cm) and 18-25 umbels on a stem 3-5 meters high, it predominates in the desert in the center of the peninsula.

Although it is occasionally cultivated, this agave is harmed by frost with the beginning of damage beginning at -5 degrees C and being extensive at -8 degrees.

Rosa minutifolia

Dense shrub or thicket-forming pere

nnial, found in chaparral plant communities. In fact, it is exceptionally drought tolerant, particularly if given a thick layer of organic mulch; under drought stress the plant defoliates, exposing a small thicket of woody, and extremely spiny stems.

Height/spread: 30–100 cm (1m) high and wide.

Stems: Stems are low and arching, with many  generally unpaired, straight, slender prickles measuring 2-12mm in length.

Leaves: The leaves of Rosa minutifolia are the smallest of the genus Rosa, with the terminal leaflets measuring 3-6mm long and wide. Leaves are round, widest near the middle, tip shape to obtuse, with toothed margins about halfway to the midvein, glandless. The leaf axil is finely short-hairy and sparsely glandular. Leaflets are hairy and number 5-7.

Flowers: Inflorescences are generally one-flowered, pedicels are hairy and glandless, and measure to about 2-10mm in length. Flowers have a hypanthium to around 3mm wide. Densely prickly neck to 2mm wide. Sepals have toothed lateral lobes and are glandless, with the tip generally being about equal to the body, which is also toothed. Flowers typically contain pistils each. Petals measure 10-20mm and are deep pink, pale pink, or rarely white. Flowers appear in late Winter.

Fruit: Fruit shape is typically spherical, about 5mm in width. Sepals persistent, erect to spreading; achenes unknown.

Machaerocereus gummosus

Stenocereus gummosus is a species of phanerogamous plant in the Cactaceae family. It is endemic to Mexico, where it is widespread in the Baja California peninsula. However, it does not occur at higher elevations and in th

p to approximately three meters with long stems that are curved due to their weight.

e dry northeast. Other occurrences are found on the islands and in the coastal areas of the Sonoran Desert.

Stenocereus gummosus is a creeping, bushy plant with few branching stems. The plant reaches a height of u

Stenocereus gummosus grows very slowly and is very durable: a comparison of photographic materials from 1905 and 1996 showed no noticeable changes in the size of the plants. The cactus has little tolerance to frost.

The flowers of Stenocereus gummosus are white to pink or purple, 20 cm long with a diameter of up to 8 cm, its fruits are in the shape of small bright red oranges. The main flowering period is summer, but it also comes in other seasons of the year after rain. The fruits are sweet and are considered one of the best for wine production. The fruits have a long season, but grow little, so any commercial use is not profitable. The juice is toxic and has been used by indigenous people for fishing. The brown seeds reach a length of 2.5 mm.

Opuntia cineracea

One of the species of the cactus family, with the most beautiful flower you can see. It has subshrub growth, with a main stem with many lateral branches, reaching heights of 20 cm to 80 cm. The stem segments 11 cm long and 1 cm wide, dull green or brownish green. Tubers small and

barely noticeable. The glochidia are conspicuous, 3 mm long and greasy yellow in color. Only the upper areoles of the stems have thorns, with 1 yellow or orange central thorn up to 8 cm long. It has 2 radial spines, directed downwards, dark brown to gray in color, small, 3 mm long. The flower is yellow to greenish in color. The fruit it produces is dry, spineless, brown in color, 25 mm long and 15 mm wide.

Chilopsis

Native to the southwestern United States. It is propagated by fresh and mature seed (it germinates in 5-15 days, do not collect many or sink them into the ground), also by semi-ripe cutting in summer or matured in late autumn. It grows quickly, tolerates dryness, heat, salinity, winds and temperatures down to -15 °C.

It wants porous, sandy, moist soil, with very good drainage, between sun and shade or full sun. It tolerates excess water and fertilizers poorly. Water in summer, occasionally intensely. At the beginning of summer, give nitrogen fertilizer to young plants, in small quantities.

Pachycereus pringlei (Cardon)

Succulent plant, arborescent columnar, with ascending branches that can measure up to 19 m high. It generally grows in groups called “cardonales”. The flower is yellowish-white with pink or purple lines; The pulp of the fruit can be red, pink or white. Flowering generally occurs from mid-April to the end of June. As an important characteristic, this species has three sexes (males, females and hermaphrodites) although there is no morphological difference in the flowers. It is a key species in the ecosystem, since its flowers (nectar, pollen), fruits and seeds constitute primary food for different faunal groups, and were also for the ancient inhabitants. In certain populations, nectar-eating bats have been documented to actively participate in pollination, as well as birds such as the white-winged dove Columba fasciata and the Gila woodpecker Melanerpes uropygialis.

The fruit of this cactus was important food for the indigenous people of Baja California Sur, such as the now extinct Pericúes, Cochimíes and Guaycuras, as well as for the current Seris of Sonora.

Bursera microphylla(TOROTE)

Succulent plant, arborescent columnar, with ascending branches that can measure up to 19 m high. It generally grows in groups called “cardonales”. The flower is yellowish-white with pink or purple lines; The pulp of the fruit can be red, pink or white. Flowering generally occurs from mid-April to the end of June. As an important characteristic, this species has three sexes (males, females and hermaphrodites) although there is no morphological difference in the flowers. It is a key species in the ecosystem, since its flowers (nectar, pollen), fruits and seeds constitute primary food for different faunal groups, and were also for the ancient inhabitants. In certain populations, nectar-eating bats have been documented to actively participate in pollination, as well as birds such as the white-winged dove Columba fasciata and the Gila woodpecker Melanerpes uropygialis.

The fruit of this cactus was important food for the indigenous people of Baja California Sur, such as the now extinct Pericúes, Cochimíes and Guaycuras, as well as for the current Seris of Sonora.

Bursera microphylla is a species of tree belonging to the Burseraceae family. It is native to northern Mexico (Baja California, Baja California Sur, Sinaloa, Sonora and Zacatecas)1 and the Southwest of the United States (southern California and Arizona), in desert biomes. Numerous medicinal properties are attributed to it.

It is known by the common names of cuajiote, torote, white torote, red torote or copal. In English, it is known as the elephant tree because of its “swollen” trunk.

It reaches 3.6-4.7 m in height and its bark is light gray and white, with the youngest branches being reddish. The foliage is composed of long, straight, flat leaves. It blooms in rounded yellow buds that open with small white or cream flowers. The fruit is a drupe containing a yellow seed.

Bursera microphylla is native to the Sonoran Desert. It lives in semi-warm, semi-dry and dry climates up to 1500 meters. It is associated with disturbed vegetation of tropical deciduous forest, xeric scrub and oak forest.

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