Description

This Photo Essay addresses how trees try to protect themselves from vines and lianas that may “choke” the trunk of the tree. The leaves of the vines up in the treetops may shade out
the trees.

We introduce three trees that visitors to Tikal can see: Jiote (Bursera simaruba), Pimienta Gorda (Pimienta dioica), Guayaba (Psidium guajava)

Author
Nicholas Hellmuth

Compilation of basic data from earlier botanist and ecologist
Nicholas Hellmuth

Plant Identification
(GENUS SPECIES)
Nicholas Hellmuth
Victor Mendoza

Bibliography Team
Nicholas Hellmuth
Vivian Hurtado
Maria Jose Toralla

Editor
Maria Jose Rabanales
Vivian Hurtado

Photographers
Nicholas Hellmuth

Manager of Design and Layout
Andrea Sánchez Díaz

Layout of this English Edition
Alexander Gudiel