gobernadora

English translation: greasewood / creosote bush

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Spanish term or phrase:gobernadora
English translation:greasewood / creosote bush
Entered by: Cinnamon Nolan

20:43 Jan 25, 2007
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Botany
Spanish term or phrase: gobernadora
Type of desert plant found in the state of Nuevo León, Mexico. Within a list in the text:

La vegetación dominante son los matorrales desérticos tanto rosetófilos como micrófilos. (mezquites, huizaches, gobernadoras, y hojasén entre otros).

There may be no translation; "mezquite" is the same.
Cinnamon Nolan
Spain
Local time: 20:14
greasewood
Explanation:
Probably a more common name than creosote bush.

Larrea tridentada, Chapparal, Greasewood, Gobernadora, Hediondilla.
..also known as Greasewood, Chapparal, Gobernadora, Creosote bush, or Hediondilla. Family: Zygophyllaceae. One of my favorite desert plants, Chapparal is ...
www.desertbloomherbs.com/monographs/larrea.html - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
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Daniel Burns (X)
Local time: 13:14
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4Creosote bush
Patricia Ferreira Larrieux
4greasewood
Daniel Burns (X)


  

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Creosote bush


Explanation:
El nombre científico es: Larrea tridentata

El enlace es siempre el mismo de antes:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/006/ad316e/AD316E09.htm

Suerte!


Patricia Ferreira Larrieux
Italy
Local time: 20:14
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greasewood


Explanation:
Probably a more common name than creosote bush.

Larrea tridentada, Chapparal, Greasewood, Gobernadora, Hediondilla.
..also known as Greasewood, Chapparal, Gobernadora, Creosote bush, or Hediondilla. Family: Zygophyllaceae. One of my favorite desert plants, Chapparal is ...
www.desertbloomherbs.com/monographs/larrea.html - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

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