Welcome to Suzanne Cook, from a fellow PBS and SSILA member. Chiapas is a good place to find unusual plants, and I hope you will be able to post some photos from the field on our wiki. Perhaps you can add the indigenous names, though often one can't elicit these for plants that aren't used. Jane McGary Membership Coordinator, PBS At 09:45 AM 1/22/2012, you wrote: >Hi all, >I'm new to the group, coming from a linguistics background but catapulted >into botany. I joined the group to learn more about tropical plants I'm >finding in my study area: the Lacandon Rainforest in Chiapas, Mexico. The >site is lower montane Rain Forest, elev. 800-1100 meters. Some of these >plants start life as a bulb. So here I am. > > > >Suzanne Cook >Dept.of Linguistics >University of Victoria >Victoria, BC V9E 2J1 >CANADA