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5 plants worth knowing

Honduras

Honduras is a mountainous country whose interior is covered by extensive pine and pine–oak forests, while the highest peaks carry misty cloud forests, as in the Celaque and La Tigra parks. In the east, in the Mosquitia region, lies one of Central America’s largest rainforests, home to the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve (UNESCO), and the Caribbean coastal lowlands are taken up by banana and oil palm plantations.

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  1. Rhyncholaelia digbyana 1

    orchid · National flower of Honduras (since 1969)

    Rhyncholaelia digbyana

    Rhyncholaelia digbyana

    An orchid with a huge, fringed lip that smells of citrus at night – the national flower of Honduras.
  2. Ocote pine 2

    tree · The pine is the national tree of Honduras; pines appear on the country’s coat of arms

    Ocote pine

    Pinus oocarpa

    The pine on Honduras’s coat of arms – its resinous wood, “ocote”, has served for centuries as kindling in rural homes.
  3. Arabica coffee 3

    crop

    Arabica coffee

    Coffea arabica

    Honduras is Central America’s largest coffee producer – coffee from Marcala was the first in the region to win a protected designation of origin.
  4. Banana 4

    crop

    Banana

    Musa acuminata

    It was Honduras that inspired the writer O. Henry to coin the term “banana republic”.
  5. Big-leaf mahogany 5

    tree

    Big-leaf mahogany

    Swietenia macrophylla

    Known in the trade as “Honduran mahogany” – the most valuable tree of the Mosquitia forests, now threatened by illegal logging.